pearling-banks

Updated: May 10, 2025

Nature furnishes the sea, pearling-banks, oysters, and all therein contained; the Ceylon administration conducts the undertaking, and for its trouble and trifling outlay exacts a "rake-off" of two thirds of all that may be won from the deep.

Frederic Courtland Penfield - East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan