This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...extensive population seemed to be jackals. Our little oxen, as pretty as angels, jingled us all night back to Kikiria, where we took tea at the rest-house at four o'clock in the morning; and as we sat on the porch in the dark, we could hear nothing but the creak of an ox-mill grinding oil, and the almost continuous cry ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...extensive population seemed to be jackals. Our little oxen, as pretty as angels, jingled us all night back to Kikiria, where we took tea at the rest-house at four o'clock in the morning; and as we sat on the porch in the dark, we could hear nothing but the creak of an ox-mill grinding oil, and the almost continuous cry of the jackals from the jungle. Really a jackal's cry is worth hearing; it is an ideally lost soul; a soul in pain; creepy and wailing; sadder than despair, and quite clearly proof of the Buddhist doctrine of metempsychosis, for no Christian animal has a right to cry like that unless he has lost something quite unusual. We got back to Kandy all right, and very charming Kandy is. I took to morning walks, an hour or two before breakfast which was at half-past nine o'clock; and in all my short experience of the world I have never met walks so beautiful as those about Kandy. They have, too, the advantage of being broad and gravelled and cared-for, so that if a cobra happens to be taking his morning walk at the same time with you, you need not offend him by treading on his tail. This is a real advan tage to me, for I do not like cobras. Some people seem to think a cobra only a snake, and speak trivially of him; but to me, a cobra is what he was to the Brahmin and Hindus, clearly a snake-deity; and when he stands up and flattens his neck and sways about, he looks to me forty feet high, with a mission to civilise Europe and America. I have never met a wild one, and in my walks I took sufficient care not to do so, for the harmless snakes here are quite numerous and big enough to satisfy me; but I saw enough captive ones to appreciate their qualities, and I not only understand why the cobra is worshipped, but I am quite prepared to worship him myself ...
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Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 133, [3]pp. Slight spotting on the boards but otherwise a handsome near fine copy without dustwrapper. Also prints "A Niece's Memories" by Mabel la Farge.
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With a Niece's Memories, by Mabel La Farge. Tall 8vo, cloth. Boston, 1920.
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Ex-library-Fair. 6 x 9.25. Ex-library copy with usual markings, covers have heavy wear and rubbing with top of spine missing, corners heavily bumped, binding tight, 133 pages, letters from Henry Adams to his fifteen year old niece plus the Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres.
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