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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024157186 ''Fifty Years in Ceylon: an Autobiography''] by the late Major Thomas Skinner, Commissioner of Public Works Ceylon. Edited by his daughter Annie Skinner 1891 Archive.org. Born 1804, he arrived in Ceylon in 1818, aged 14, where his father was stationed. Soon he was appointed as an officer in the Ceylon Regiment. He retired from Ceylon in 1867.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiaceylon00haec ''India and Ceylon''] by Ernst Haeckel, translated by Mrs S E Boggs. 1883 Archive.org. The author was professor of Zoology at the University of Jena, Thuringia, Germany. “A coherent, if not strictly literal translation” of [https://archive.org/details/indischereisebri00haec ''Indische Reisebriefe''] (''Letters of Indian Travel''). 1883 Archive.org. Most of the book is about Ceylon.
*[https://archive.org/details/parsonsholidaybe00alle/page/n5 ''A Parson's Holiday : being an account of a Tour in India, Burma, and Ceylon, in the winter of 1882-83''] by W Osborn B Allen 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023017902 ''About Ceylon and Borneo : being an account of two visits to Ceylon, one to Borneo, and how we fell out on our homeward journey''] by Walter J Clutterbuck 1891 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000355F8 British Library Digital Collection] with rotatable images. A visit mainly in 1890, and memories of a residence c 1877.
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