The Village in the Jungle

by Leonard Woolf

[35]Procession, usually a Sinhalese or Buddhist procession.

[36]Lizard. The chirping cry of the gecko is universally regarded as a warning cry of ill omen.

[37]A holy man or religious beggar Hindu.

[38]Fifteen feet.

[39]Hinnihami addresses Punchirala by name, and thereby shows him that she does not regard herself as living with him as his wife.

[40]Mother.

[41]A gambaraya is technically a man who oversees the cultivation of rice-fields for the owners, and is paid usually by a share of the crop.

[42]Gama means a village.

[43]A poya day is the day of the change of the moon, which is kept as a sacred day by the Buddhists, answering in some ways to the Christian Sunday.

[44]Kachcheri is the Government offices.