AND THE MALAY STATES 
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cloths and daubed from head to foot in clayey mud, toiled in a half 
hearted way. Then the scenery became more interesting as we climbed 
to higher ground, the road running above a winding valley where great 
stretches of jungle were broken by banana and rice plantations, with 
“dendrocalamus giganteus.” 
[ Giant bamboos in the Peradeniya Gardens, showing the young 
shoots, and a section of one.] 
occasional glimpses of splendid government carriage roads, while rugged 
mountain ranges in the distance made an effective background. 
Every now and then we stopped at a neat railway station, crowded 
with natives, interspersed with a few Europeans, for whom, by the way, 
the first-class waiting rooms and cars are always reserved. Between 
