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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[JONE f, 1894. 
soon of ISfl- ^ large nurserj was made a 
little below where the Uplands Bungalow now 
stands, for at that time the 236 acres forming 
the Uplands Estate was a portion of Galoya 
and were considered too wet and cold for coffee ! 
The adjoining estate, Wattegodde (now called 
Halpya), was also opened by Wni. Kudd about 
this time, and while planting these estates 
there were several assistants working under 
him at dift'erent times. Dowdall was witli hini 
for a few months, then McGowan, Harding, 
Wright, Ondatjee, Capper, Webster, and Dunn 
who was subsequently a Cinnamon planter at 
Kadirane. 
Galoya gave its first sprinkling of cherries, 
or maiden crop, in 1842 and the Superintendent 
was very anxious to have a fine sample of 
parchment to show. Having occasion to visit 
Amblamana, on the other side of the range, 
he rode off one morning after giving his assis. 
tant instructions to have some colTee put out 
to dry. On returning in the evening, during a 
heavy North-East shower, he found the coffee 
beans being washed off the barbacue. The 
Sinne Durai's explanation was You did not 
tell me to take the coffee in, you only said 
to piit it out." William Rudd often said that 
want of thought did moie harm than the want 
of knowledge, and here was certainly an apt 
illustration of his favourite aphorism. The hero 
of this little episode was promptly sent back 
to Messrs. Ackland & Boyd who placed liim 
under a stern master and lie lived to become 
one of the hardest working planters in Ceylon. 
On Galoya there was a very large niLxed 
labor force of over 200 Malabars and Sinhalese, 
some of the latter coming from Kadirane, 
Bentota and even Ambalangoda. The rate of pay 
was 7 pence per day and there was a general 
strike when the rate was reduced to sixpence, but 
the reduction was maintained in the face of all 
difficulties and work was soon going on smoothly 
again. In 1842, however, rumours of a rebellion 
caused a panic amongst the lowcountry Sin- 
halese who kept away for a considerable time. 
The bungalow elected on the Galoya Estate 
was of a somewhat uncommon plan — ^^tlie house 
being a perfect square, as affording the greatest 
amount of accommodation within a given area. 
The site of this first bungalow (which has 
long since disappeared) was near the store and 
could be distinguished by some Sissoo trees* 
which had been planted about it. These were 
obtained from seed sent to Ceylon by the Agii 
Horticultural Society of India. If these trees 
have not been destroyed, they should, after half a 
* Dalbergia sissoo. 
century of growth, yield magnilicent timber for 
fancy articles of furniture. The Mood of the 
Sissd tree is of a dark brown colour mottled 
with yellow. 
A note of some little interest is found under 
date of June 22nd, 1842, when Mr. Swan ac- 
companied by Mr. Anstruther (the Colonial 
Secretary, and Mrs. Anstiuther) visited the estate 
— " The first lady visitor to Galoya." 
William Rudd had Ijeeu drawing £400 per 
annum for the two estates, Wattegodda and 
Galoya, and resigned on intimation from Messrs. 
Ackland & Boyd tliat the salary was to Ije 
reduced to £250. At the end of July the pro- 
prietors brother, Robert Ualgleish Swan, took 
over charge. He was at one time the owner ot 
the Handrookande Estate which gave one year 
17 cwt. per acre picked and despatched besides 
what was lost ! The new Manager's assistant 
was John Gavin, a recent arrival, who was sub- 
sequently known as "Honest John," and who!<e 
1)01 trait and memoir appeared in the April issue 
of this periodical. 
Mr. JefTery and Edward Francis, (generally 
known to his friends a.s ' ■ Pickwick") jointly 
owned the Hindoogalie estate. From them 
Wm. Rudd purchased the place. When originally 
formed into an Estate it was almost all chena 
land, but the new purchaser must have been 
well acquainted with the land as it was next to 
Galoya. 
At this time, old Mr. Robb was living on 
Hindoogalie. He had come out from Scotland 
under an indenture to Mr. Jeffery, and Mr. 
Kudd having taken over the indenture by 
mutual agreement, Mr. Robb continued on Qp- 
doogalle. 
Prosperity.— On Hindoogalie Wm Kudd 
prospered for some years. He bought other 
properties, some by himself, and others in part- 
nership ; some were profitably resold, and at one 
time his income from interest of money alone 
amounted to £2,000 a year. He had cliarge 
of the Kent and Ambokke estates in Matale 
1° addition to others, and with his wife 
and family, there being now three children (1846), 
he lived on Hindoogalie in comfort and hap- 
piness. 
The contrast was great between those days 
of comparative affluence, and the time when as 
a younger man just freed from his indentures, he 
, started far Ceylon, being indebted to his uncle 
for the amount of his pjissage money, which 
. h$ early in life repaigl ^ ou$ ,ot to Aarflwgs, . 
