The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-24

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We visited also while in Johannes
burg the South African Institute for
| Medical Research which is doing
splendid work, especially investigat
| ing pneumonia for which they have a |
large clientele among the miners; and
the observatory and municipal hospi |
! tai.
Our American hosts also took us over |
| in beautiful SO mile automobile trip |
| to Pretoria, the Administrative capitol
| of South Africa. Here as well as in |
| Johannesburg we were able to learn
| something of the salient features of
infantile paralysis.
| We found at Pretoria a fine military
medical system, and in this, as in many
other features of the organization of
| the South African Union, we diseov
cred the results of American influence.
| General Gorgas spent some months here
1 and at Johannesburg, few years ago,
and now, Major Orenstein, who was
| long associated with him, is showing
great ability in organizing splendid
medical work The state building at
Pretoria is beautiful and admirably
arranged. 1t is said to be, aside from
our Capitol at Washington, one of the
finest state buildings i'll the world The
front steps in semi-circular shape form
a great amphitheatre where any ques
ton can be brought before very large
body of people.
All the region between Durham and
Pretoria in historic ground. At Durham
we saw the house in which Paul
Kreuger lived, and in front of which
he used to sit and make the laws of
the realm; the church standing oppo-
site, where he attended; and, up the
, road the cemetery in which he is bur-
led. Outside the city we saw Roberts
Heights, named from the great COM
mander who entered the city from this
direction in the Boer war; and on our
railroad journey from, and back to
Durham we passed such historic places
as Ladysmith and Majuba Hill, and
scattered everywhere along the road in
certain sections were the little graves
of those who fell i'll battle.
f South Africa produces not only gold
and diamonds, but also copper, tin and
other minerals, and a very large
amount of sugar While at Durham we
tions and one of the sugar factories in
g WHICH lnOuSdHuS Dl tuilo VI SIdHuldtch
sugar are taken from the cane and
f packed ready for shipment.
: From Durham we proceeded to Beira,
city of Portuguese East Africa. Here
r too, we encountered the utmost hospi-
= tally. Some of US were invited to eve
= ming dinner with the Governor General
: of this region. 1t may seem strange
$ to some of you that this region is gov
) erned by a commercial company or
g ganized in Portugal, called the Mo
e zambique company. We were enter
|. tanned too, at the tennis grounds and
5 the golf links.
G As | write this evening we are near
G ing Colombo, Ceylon. Yesterday VIC
II passed a beautiful "Atal' or group
! of coral islets, covered with palms and
h surrounding lagoon in which We
J. could see several little sail boats.
At Sea, May 30, 1918.
L On this Memorial Day.. | viii write
II a little about our stay IN Colombo, the
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y Spices.
e The day of our arrival we were
d treated by courtesy of the government
y to visit to Randy, y miles away an(
;, situated 1000 feet above the sea, NJ
1t in the mountains. The railroad winds
n in and out along preeipitous heights OF
IS which are situated groves of palms
A. cocoanut and banana; as well as tie;
plantations and rice fields. This is tn
ID rainy season and the fields were flood
&c cd and the mountains were overhun,
ir with clouds. The heat was extrem
r and men, women and children, as wei
l tlu IN Bn
Y the water of the streams SO prominen
i everywhere in the landscape.
If The city of Handy was the ancien
Id capital of the Kandian Kings and j
in situated around a beautiful artificial
ID lake designed by the last of thes
to kings. The lake is in a basin sur
il rounded by palm-covered hills.
C. Handy has two features which es
d; pecially interested us Here is locate
of the Buddhist "Temple of the Tooth,
er which is hailed by millions of the rae
of as the MOST sacred place on earth. W
r. could not see the wonderful tooth, bh
we saw the sacred writings, the beat
re tful ancient stone thresholds and door
he ways, the illustrations of the punish
o ments melted out to sinners, and {
ng Nirvana, the final goal of the soul {
at man.
lr The other attraction is the Roy;
off Botanical Garden, one of the mo:
I'm beautiful gardens in the world. Hei
IL we saw various trees from which rul
'ot Der IS obtained, palms, bamboo, mo;
ng beautiful orchids, eamphor, cinnamon
nut Glove, vanilla trees, eta wonderf
ne variety of tropical plants and trees.
ny This is the part of the world fro
m which comes many of the anima
ed which we are accustomed to see on
ro- in the Zoo. We were told that lion
ur- are frequently seen in the forests, clo
ial to the gardens of Beira. One day wht
our party made trip up the Buzz ri
ice er, we saw several crocodiles and OF
ty. hippopotamHs.
gh On our little trip to and from Kant
our we saw several elephants driven alor
an the road with two men sitting like pi
vas mics OH the back of each. Monke