Chapter XII: Two Weeks in Ceylon 125-135

Ceylon not a part of India, but a Crown Colony of
Britain 127

Colombo, a European city, and English the best
means of communication 127

Buddhism, crowded out of India, made its way
southward 127

A sacred tooth of Buddha is preserved at Kandy 127

Wesleyan Methodist College and English Baptist
College at Colombo 128

The Ananda College, a theosophical institution,
unfavorable to Christianity 128

A refuge in Nurwara Eliya, six thousand two hundred
feet above the sea 129

Switzerland without its ruggedness, and terraces of
tea-plants lining the approaches thither 129

Forests of rubber make a sea of verdure 130

The Missionary Rest-house at Kandy 131

The famous Buddhist temple, and its evening worship 131

Its library the only sign of intelligence 131

Church of the English Baptists welcomes us 132

The botanical gardens, wonderful for their variety
of products 132

Anurajahpura and its ruined pagoda, a solid conical
mass of brick 133

One thousand six hundred pillars of stone, the
foundations of an ancient monastery 133

Cremation of a Buddhist priest, and our reception
by the high priest of the remaining temple 134