1 76 Coffee Planting. 



difficulty to a gentleman in Kandy, who, tearing off 

 the cover of a price current, at once showed me 

 how, by pieces of stiff hoop iron, bent in three, 

 to slip over the end of the upper sheet, and under 

 that of the lower, the object might be effected ; so 

 I procured these from Walker and Co., and nailed 

 the upper end of the sheets to the rafters, and 

 holding the lower ends of the next overlapping 

 sheets by means of these slips ; the roof is all I 

 could desire." 



The description of bungalow to be built must, of 

 course, depend on the amount to be expended on its 

 erection. In most localities a suitable residence 

 might in my time be put up for between ,300 or 

 400. Probably, however, in the present position 

 of the coffee enterprise (the value of estate pro- 

 perty being enormously increased, in consequence 

 of the high prices ruling during the last few years 

 in the European markets), the planter's views on 

 this subject may have become more ambitious, 

 while the advance in wages will also probably tend 

 further to necessitate an increased estimate. It is, 

 however, beyond the scope of a work like the 

 present to consider the erection of anything 

 beyond a plain, comfortable, and substantial 

 dwelling ; it being neither prudent nor desirable 

 in my opinion to burden the accounts of a young 

 estate with expenditure on merely ornamental 



