CHAPTER V.

BRITISH LAW-COURTS AND BUDDHIST TEMPLES.

The courts a great centre of popular interest--A means of wreaking personal revenge--The district court--A case of burglary--The British ideal of life does not appeal to the natives--A Tamil student of philosophy--To Dambulla in a bullock-cart--A coterie of Eurasians--The cave-temples of Dambulla--A boy-priest and his cook--Other Buddhist temples 86–97