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flag. In very many cases adventurous spirits have gone wliere 

 they had no business to go, and assumed authority which they had 

 no business to assume ; yet if the natives resented this and these 

 men suffered in life or property, a British gunboat was promptly 

 upon the spot, and, if necessary, the whole power of this great 

 nation was at hand to resent the " outrage upon the British flag; " 

 generally the affair resulted in a British occupation, and new ter- 

 ritory was added to the already immense possessions of the British 

 in the East. However, perhaps Englishmen can retort by saying, 

 with some truth, that our Indian policy has been a duplicate of 

 that of Great Britain, and it may be tha,t 



" Through the ages one increasing purpose runs," . 



and that the destiny of the aboriginal races, both in India and 

 America, is to disappear before the onward march of European 

 " civilization." 



CEYLON. 



CAUOES AT POINT DE QALLE COCOA-NUT TEEES ^FEMAiE POLTGA- 



MISTS. 



, The island of Ceylon, lying off the southern coast of India, is ' 

 about two hundred miles long by one hundred broad. The first 

 impressions that travellers usually get of this great island are de- 

 rived from the little port of Point de Galle at its extreme south- 

 ern end, which is the great port of call for all the steam lines to 

 the east ; and as you approach the island the thing that most at- 

 tracts the traveller's attention is the surf, which breaks with great 

 violence all along the coast. Galle Harbor itself is a little band^ 

 box of a haven, rocky and somewhat dangerous of access, and not 

 very secure after it has been reached. Immediately our steamer 

 dropped anchor she was surrounded by a fleet of the queerest- 

 shaped canoes I have ever seen. Imagine a log, eighteen inches 

 to two feet in diameter, twenty-five or thirty feet long, tapered 

 up to a point at the ends, and with a narrow slit, about eighteen 

 inches wide, cut in it throughout nearly its whole length ; through 

 this slit the entire inside of the log is scooped out, leaving only 



