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| Title | Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon |
| Author | Sir Samuel White Baker |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Oct 16, 2007 |
| Length | 423 pages |
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