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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



After breakfast (I would say "early tea") we secured a gharri, 

 drawn by a horse that must have been a survival of the Portuguese occu- 

 pation, so ancient was he, and started off for Tabeuwana, five miles 

 away, where was another rest house. One advantage of the horse over 

 the automobile, and the slow horse over the fast one, is that it allows 

 one to take in the beauties of the scenery to a greater degree. The 

 languid creature to which I had entrusted myself gave me ample chance 

 to enjoy the cinnamon groves, the cocoanut plantations, and the paddy 



CEARA RUBBER TREE. 



[At Polgahawella ; planted about 1886.] 



fields. Besides this, I was interested in the natives, and when we mean- 

 dered slowly through a village with the houses close to the road, and 

 smelling like a fish glue factory that had soured over night, I simply held 

 my nose, but kept my eyes wide open and saw much that is not set down 

 here. We tarried at the "Rest House" at Tabeuwana only long enough 

 for noon breakfast and then pushed on for Culloden, which, by the way, 

 is in Neboda, or at least that is the nearest postoffice. The roads were 

 good, as all in Ceylon are, and there are some 4,000 miles of them, but 

 the scenery began to show a decided change. The country became more 



