An
Account of the Island of Ceylon : Containing Its History, Geography, Natural
History, with the Manners and Customs of Its Various Inhabitants: To which is
Added the Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Candy/Robert Percival.
Reprint. New Delhi, AES, 1990, xii, 420 p., maps, $39. ISBN 81-206-0563-2.
Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. General description of Ceylon. 3. The pearl fishery. 4. Patallom salt-works. 5. Description of Columbo. 6. Country south of Columbo. 7. Description of the Ceylonese Dutch. 8. The Ceylonese. 9. Religion of the Ceylonese. 10. Circumstances which distinguish the Cinglese from the Candians. 11. The King of Candy’s dominions. 12. The civil and military establishments of the Kingdom of Candy. 13. Description of the Bedahs, or Vaddahs. 14. Animals of Ceylon. 14. A. Vegetables. 15. Cinnamon, the staple commodity. 16. Minerals of Ceylon. 17. General observations. 18. Journal of the Embassy to the Court of Candy, in 1800