CHAPTER I.CHAP. III.CHAP. II.
AGRICULTURE, IRRIGATION, CATTLE, AND CROPS.
- Agriculture unknown before the arrival of Wijayo [429]
- Rice was imported into Ceylon in the second century B.C.
[429]
- The practice of irrigation due to the Hindu kings [430]
- Who taught the science of irrigation to the Singhalese
(note) [430]
- The first tank constructed B.C. 504 [431]
- Gardens and fruit-trees first planted [432]
- Value of artificial irrigation in the north of Ceylon [432]
- In the south of the island the rains sustain cultivation
[432]
- Two harvests in the year in the south of the island [432]
- In the north, where rains are uncertain, tanks indispensable
[432]
- Irrigation the occupation of kings [434]
- The municipal village-system of cultivation [434]
- "Assoedamising" of rice lands in the mountains [434]
- Temple villages and their tenure [434]
- Farm-stock buffaloes and cows [435]
- A Singhalese garden described [435]
- Coco-nut palm rarely mentioned in early writings [436]
- Doubt whether it be indigenous to Ceylon [436]
- The Mango and other fruits [437]
- Rice and curry mentioned in the second century B.C. [437]
- Animal food used by the early Singhalese [438]
- Betel, antiquity of the custom of chewing it [438]
- Intoxicating liquors known at an early period [439]