Note 166 — Chapter XIX · TRINCOMALEE—SAAMI ROCK

Precisely as was done by our own ancestors—a custom kept up in many a corner of Great Britain long after Christianity was the only recognised religion in the land. For instances of such libations being offered even in the last century in our northern isles and Highlands see ‘In the Hebrides,’ pp. 71 and 192 to 194. By C. F. Gordon-Cumming. Published by Chatto and Windus.