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traveling around the world planting them everywhere. They are invis- 
ible, practically. The back of your chair this moment is covered with 
them where my hand rested before you came along. Here is my train. 
Good bye.” 
As the train left the station, a once peaceful and self-satisfied ency- 
clopedia of American habits, with red face and anxious mien, was stand- 
ing far away from the three chairs, and making a stump speech to a large 
SENSATION ROCK, NEAR KANDY. 
crowd of bewildered coolies. Those germs worked so quickly on him 
that I almost believed in their existence. 
A few minutes later I was in Kandy, and comfortably established 
at the Queen’s Hotel. 
The city of Kandy (Hill town) is noted chiefly as having been the 
seat of the Kandyan kings, the possessor of the temple of the Sacred 
Tooth, and at the present time for having only one hotel. “The Queen’s,” 
