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Updated: June 10, 2025
For these are the Todas and Veddahs, the aboriginals of Monte Carlo, who peopled its sunny slopes in long-forgotten days of rustic life once lords of the soil, now pariahs. What are they doing here?
It has happened to most people to laugh themselves awake out of a dream, and every one who has done so must remember the ghastly, hollow, and maniacal sound of his own mirth. It rings horribly in a quiet room where there has been, as the Veddahs of Ceylon say is the case in the world at large, "nothing to laugh at."
"What can that be?" I asked. "Some human being in pain," answered Mr Fordyce, pressing on his horse in the direction from whence the sound came. We followed him till we came to a tree round which stood a number of Veddahs, far less repulsive than those we had before seen.
It is a fact which has been commented upon considerably, and which is perhaps worthy of mention in this connection, that, in many important particulars, these Veddahs are very like the wild native tribes of Australia. This is not only evinced in certain physical resemblances, but also in their hereditary habits, their unwritten tongue, and some other particulars.
As they practice constantly from boyhood, this is but natural. With the exception of the knife, the bow and arrow is their only weapon of offense or defense. It is thought that there are not over a couple of thousand Veddahs now in existence, an aggregate which is annually diminished.
Doctrine of Metempsychosis. Various Nationalities forming the Population. Common Languages. Tamils are the Wage-Earners. The Singhalese Proper are Agriculturists. Queer Belief in Demons. Propitiation! The Veddahs. Attacking Wild Elephants. Serpent Worship. Polyandry. Native Singhalese Women. Dress of Both Sexes. Streets of Colombo on a Gala Day. An English Four-in-Hand. Mount Lavonia.
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