CEYLON. 



FROM AUSTRALIA TO CEYLON — ISLAM U OF CEYLON, ITS 



CLIMATE, PEOPLE, DISEASES — COLOMBO GENKHAL 



CIVIL HOSPITAL — CEYLON MEDICAL COLLEGE — 



CEYLON LEPER COLONY — LEPER BUDDHIST 



CELEBRATION — KANDY GENERAL 



CIVIL HOSPITAL. 



The voyage from Adelaide to Colombo takes fourteen 

 days. I left Adelaide August 11 and arrived at Co- 

 lombo on the 24th, a little ahead of the stipulated time. 

 The only rough weather we encountered was for four 

 days in crossing the great Australian Bight, a part of 

 the ocean that has an unenviable reputation with people 

 who are subject, to seasickness. Our good, staunch, 

 storm-tried ship, the China, played with the foam- 

 crested waves by a graceful combination of rolling and 

 pitching which, unavoidable and well intended, brought 

 about the usual result — reversion of the peristaltic ac- 

 tion of the stomach — in a fair percentage of cases 

 among the small number of passengers. It seemed to 

 me, however, that the Australian and English people 

 are, on the whole, less susceptible to seasickness than 

 the more nervous Americans, and a number of the lady 

 passengers always occupied their places at the table 

 during meal-time. A few hours' stop was made at 

 Fremantle, which gave me an opportunity to see this 

 important western port of Australia and from there 

 make an excursion by rail to Perth, 12 miles distant. 

 Perth is a new and modern city with 25.000 inhabi- 

 tants. The activity in the principal streets reminds 

 one very much, at least on a small scale, of State Street 

 in Chicago. The business importance of both these 



