136 COFFEE: ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



enough; at ten they are often "roasting" hot, and 

 so they continue until the sun goes down once 

 more, and Nature refreshes itself in the cool of 

 the evening. 



When a wet monsoon is raging in Ceylon or 

 India, the rain descends in blinding torrents, none 

 but the stoutest and best-made roofs withstanding 

 it. The estate bungalow should be just under 

 the crest of a commanding hillock, as near the 

 centre of the estate as possible. The main road 

 should run close by if possible, while the coolie 

 lines should lie within sight, but not too close, 

 and the stores and pulping houses also handy. 

 If the bungalow hill is two hundred feet or so 

 above the surrounding country, it will probably 

 get whatever breezes there are blowing in the hot 

 weather, and will be healthier. The view also 

 should be good no mean consideration after a 

 hard day's work to a lonely man. 



To right and left, perhaps, the high mountains 

 shut off the quarter of each monsoon, and looking 

 southward down the winding valley, the eye ranges 

 over long expanses of unclaimed jungle stretching 

 right away to the grey distance a wilderness, the 

 home of the bison and elephant, all " impenetrable 

 jungle." To the north we look along the course 

 of the road, which leads over half-a-dozen estates, 

 buried in deep frames of jungle, each with its little 

 white bungalow and dusky coolie " lines ;" and 

 amid most one catches here and there the flashing 



