The Village in the Jungle

by Leonard Woolf

[45]A term used by superiors to inferiors meaning something like 'fellow.'

[46]Ge is Sinhalese for house. A ge name answers in some respects to a surname.

[47]A peya is a Sinhalese hour, and is equal to about twenty minutes.

[48]A term commonly used by villagers, referring to the Ratemahatmaya.

[49]A hackery is a single bullock cart.

[50]The common lizard: its 'chirp' is always considered by the Sinhalese to be a warning or sign of ill omen.

[51]Pence.

[52]A shrub which grows in waste places.

[53]Coir, fibre of the cocoa-nut husk.