The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-01-10

America. We learned that the reason
for this form of salutation lies in the
fact that our fleet landed at Colombo
and went by rail to Kandry as we did,
and that the children and people are
using this salutation as a mark of
friendship and admiration.
Ceylon is undoubtedly the richest
island and probably the most beauti-
full in all the round earth. Colombo
has a fine harbor into which all YES
sells enter on the trans-oceanic trips
between the far east and west, wheth-
err bound through the Suez canal or
around South Africa. Here we be-
held all sorts of ships from all lands,
but no boat so large or so fine as our
own Cleveland We were proud to
know that the street railway and city
waterworks, as well as the large silk
mills and many other great enterpris-
es, were owned and operated by
Americans. At Kandry we visited the
finest botanical garden in the world,
being over 100 acres in extent and
contains thousands of the rarest and
most beautiful plants and trees. We
visited the great tea estates and were
interested to see on the great estate
of Sir Thomas Lipon his plant for dry
ing and packing tea in operation. We
picked tea, coffee, cloves, pepper, nut
meg, ETC., and pulled pure rubber from
the little spouts on rubber trees.
We here saw elephants used as we
use horses and saw them sporting in
the limpid waters of the mountain
streams, whose banks were covered
with the beautiful cocoanut palms and
the palms which bear the arraket nut
so universally chewed as we use to-
bacco. We picked king cocoanuts and
drank the water and picked the cocoa
pods out Of which chocolate is made.
Think OF a forest of trees so to 70 feet
high and each tree only 3 to inches
in diameter and maintaining absolute
ly the same size and all the way to
the top, and at the top beautiful
plumed mass of leaves looking like a
feather buster.
Here the natives all wear clothing
and look we'll nourished and happy.
Ceylon is like India, under British
control, through resident governor
who resides at Colombo. Here for
$50 years ruled Holland, having
wrested the power from the hands OF
the natives under Queen Kala, a
native queen We visited the former
queens palace and Notifications and
read the inscriptions cut in the rocks
in the fort in 1863, the time it was
built. England got possession in 1915
and has held the island since then.
Ceylon has beautiful roads and many
great industries. Cocoanuts, eat, rice,
cotton, sandal wood, coal and many
varieties OF precious stones are among
the articles of export. The people are
mostly followers of Budda and have
many gods. Here we find eighteen
casts of people. We find here many
Hollanders engaged in business, tea
and other estates. They are very
light in complexion and resemble tho
Englishmen and therefore the Cyinga-
lisc call all foreigners Dutch. We
were glad to know that here people
would accept any sort of United States
as quickly as their own. Here,
as in India, the rupie is the standard,
but it contains not 80 cents but 100
cents, so their money (silver) is soc,
and 25c and 10c and is worth one
fourth as much as our money of same
number of cents.
Jumping back to Calcutta, India, we
find it a very large city of nearly g.
100000, but not so beautiful as Bonn
bay. Yesterday we saw a banyan tree
covering one acre and the largest tree
of it's kind in the world. We saw the
most beautiful building in the world
at Agra, which cost over 100000 900
in our money and took 10000 men
twenty years to build it.
DR.. L. M. COON.
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