COACHING IN CEYLON 163 



passengers. From time to time one sees 

 accounts in the papers of coaches and 

 coaching in America or Australasia, but 

 I do not think that I have ever seen 

 Ceylon coaches referred to. As, from a 

 long and regrettable acquaintance with 

 these vehicles, I have acquired some right 

 to speak of them, I propose to try and 

 give the reader some idea of the way in 

 which coaching is carried out in the land 

 of spicy breezes. 



At the time I write of there were in 

 Ceylon six regular lines of coach traffic. 

 Firstly, came the Galle and Kalutara coach, 

 which for many years was the most im- 

 portant of all, connecting, as it did, the mail 

 port with the railway to the capital. Since 

 the new breakwater has enabled the great 

 steamship companies to call direct at the 



