Chapter 5

Food of the People.--Rice Cultivation.--Vast Artificial Lakes.--The Stone Tanks of Aden.--Parched Australia.--Coffee Culture.--Severe Reverses among Planters.--Tea Culture.--Cinchona Plantations.--Heavy Exportation of Tea.--Cacao Culture.--A Coffee Plantation described.--Domesticated Snakes.--The Cinnamon-Tree.--Cinnamon Gardens a Disappointment.--Picturesque Dwellings.--Forest Lands.--The Ceylon Jungle.--Native Cabinet Woods.--Night in a Tropical Forest.--Rhododendrons 89