i8o COACHING IN CEYLON 



road no harm is done. Up-country coaches 

 are better horsed and driven. I recollect a 

 curious accident happening to one of these. 

 The place selected for change of horses was 

 on a slight hill. One day the old team had 

 been taken out, and all the passengers had 

 got down. The horse-keepers, however, had 

 entirely neglected to scotch the wheels in any 

 way. Presently the abandoned coach started 

 slowly backwards, and before anyone could 

 intervene, its rapidly Increasing momentum 

 carried it over the edge on the other side of 

 the road, down into the coffee plantation 

 fifty feet below. There I saw It some time 

 after, and I daresay it lies there still, for 

 the work of extrication promised great 

 difficulties. 



It will be seen from what I have already 

 said that "coaching," as we understand the 



