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with, some other officers and I rode on horseback. Before, 

 behind, and in the middle ran slaves with burning torches 

 to give light, as well as other slaves with sombreros or 

 kippersols? to hold over the head of each in case of sun or 

 rain. Ahead ran a number of Cingalese or blacks of Ceylon, 

 who had been sent expressly for that purpose by the 

 Company on behalf of the Government, among whom were 

 some who each played on two little drums, which are 

 called tamboelijntiesf with similar sticks to those used for 

 dulcimers; and, as one of these tamboelijnties is rather 

 bigger than the other, they produce together a sweet sound. 

 Others played on hautboys, and others on cornets, and each 

 knew what they had to play, just as well as the kettle- 

 drummers in the fatherland. Some played during the 

 march, others during the halt, others when the march was 

 about to commence, and others again when a halt was about 

 to take place, so that anyone who was acquainted therewith 

 could tell by their playing what had taken place, was 

 taking place, or was about to take place. After these 

 tamboelinties followed the Governor's trumpeter on horse- 

 back, and after him a company on foot, altogether about 

 200 men. 



At each village through which we passed the chief men 

 thereof came to meet us with banners and spears to welcome 

 the Governor to Malluanen. In the road were many gate- 

 ways made, adorned with greenery and flowers, after the 

 manner of arcus triumpliales. The road as far as Malluanen 

 was made so beautiful, that not a stick nor branch of a tree 

 lay on it, notwithstanding that it was all forest with several 

 valleys. The country was not unpleasant to the eye, and, 

 as I heard, also rich in soil ; on this account more Chinese or 

 other industrious men were needed, in order to cultivate it. 

 But, as the Cingalese are very lazy, they content themselves 

 with great poverty, eating fruits and roots, which grow wild, 

 rather than derive some profit by work ; the more so, as 

 there is no lack of cattle, fish, game, fowls, eggs, butter, &c, 

 and as the sea and rivers supply them with fish, and the 



