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traveling around the world planting them everywhere. They are invis- 

 ible, practically. The back of your chair this moment is covered with 

 them where my hand rested before you came along. Here is my train. 

 Good bye." 



As the train left the station, a once peaceful and self-satisfied ency- 

 clopedia of American habits, with red face and anxious mien, was stand- 

 ing far away from the three chairs, and making a stump speech to a large 



SENSATION ROCK, NEAR KANDY. 



crowd of bewildered coolies. Those germs worked so quickly on him 

 that I almost believed in their existence. 



A few minutes later I was in Kandy, and comfortably established 

 at the Queen's Hotel. 



The city of Kandy (Hill town) is noted chiefly as having been the 

 seat of the Kandyan kings, the possessor of the temple of the Sacred 

 Tooth, and at the present time for having only one hotel, "The Queen's," 



