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"Two happy years in Ceylon" by C. F. Gordon Cumming is a travelogue written in the late 19th century. It offers a vivid, first-hand portrait of colonial Ceylon’s landscapes, people, religions, wildlife, and monuments, as well as its shifting economy and infrastructure from coffee to tea and from Galle to Colombo. Observant and painterly, it blends natural history, archaeology, and everyday life with the impressions of an energetic traveler.
The opening of the work moves from glowing press notices and a preface into an introduction that explains the author’s family ties to empire and sport, the difficulties of earlier travel and mails, and the loss of a brother in Ceylon; it then recounts a first, enchanting glimpse of the island en route to India and a later return at the Bishop of Colombo’s invitation. Early chapters sketch recent changes: coffee’s collapse and tea’s rise, booming pearl fisheries, restored irrigation tanks, Colombo’s new breakwater and crowded harbour, jinrikishas, a
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