This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...in the village of St. Thome (or Thomai), by a delightful road shaded from the sun by large trees. This house was built by Colonel Capper, the geographer; and, as it affords a fair specimen of such buildings in this country, though it is much superior to what are generally called garden-houses, a short ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...in the village of St. Thome (or Thomai), by a delightful road shaded from the sun by large trees. This house was built by Colonel Capper, the geographer; and, as it affords a fair specimen of such buildings in this country, though it is much superior to what are generally called garden-houses, a short description may not be disagreeable to the reader. The style of architecture is peculiar to the country and climate. The entrance is ornamented by an elegant v portico, supported by pillars, from which a magnificent viranda is continued round the building. This is the feature which externally distinguishes the eastern mode of constructing residences. All the pillars which bear the roof of this colonnade, as well as those supporting the portico, are covered with the chunam, which gives them the appearance of polished marble. In the interior the floors are covered with rattan mats. The windows are not glazed, but are furnished with a kind of curtain formed of the sweet-scented koosa grass, and drawn up on rollers: during the hot, winds these are let down, and continually watered, which operation keeps the rooms cool, and the air, passing through the koosa mat, diffuses an agreeable odour. In the dining and sitting apartments there are also machines fixed at the top, called punkas, which are large fans, kept in continual motion overhead, producing an effect very agreeable and refreshing. Every church, court of justice, and all places of public resort, are furnished with the punka. Dinner was served at seven o'clock in a splendid saloon, lighted up by numerous lamps burning cocoa-nut oil; and we were attended by many servants, all dressed in the eastern costume. After a very agreeable evening, I was taken to my apartments in the Black Town, in Mr....
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