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Let us not always be critical; if the object of our charity is really unworthy, then we have given our mite to humanity. There is a very pleasant drive which the visitor to Kandy must not forget to enjoy. We refer to Hindo Galla, where a unique Buddhist rock-temple may be visited among a wilderness of boulders. There are a score of priests in charge, quite ready to act as cicerones to visitors.

The best-preserved construction amid all the ruins is a Buddhist rock-temple, which, having been hewn out of the native stone, is still intact, though supposed to date back three hundred years before our era. It is only a small chamber about twenty feet square, containing an altar and three stone figures of Buddha in different positions, sitting, reclining, and standing.

About fifteen or twenty miles from Dondra, there is an ancient and famous rock-temple after the style of that at Dambula, already described. It is called the temple of Mulgirigalla, the place being still a sacred shrine kept up for the benefit of the faithful.

The records of the island show terrible fatality from the visits of smallpox in past years, which might easily have been prevented. Dondra Head. "The City of the Gods." A Vast Temple. A Statue of Solid Gold. A Famous Rock-Temple. Buddhist Monastery. Caltura and its Distilleries. Edible Bird's Nests. Basket-Making. The Kaluganga. Cinnamon Gardens. "The City of Gems." A Magnificent Ruby.

Somehow I knew that things were bound to happen at Abu Simbel. I didn't know what they would be, but they hovered invisible at my berth-side in the night, and whispered to warn me that I might expect them. A few people rose stealthily before dawn to prepare for Abu Simbel, because it had been hammered into their intellects by me that this Rock-Temple was the Great Thing of the Upper Nile.

Governor's House. Great Resort of Pilgrims. Interior of the Temple. The Humbug of Relics. Priests of the Yellow Robe. A Sacred Bo-Tree. Diabolical Services in the Ancient Temple. Regular Heathen Powwow. Singhalese Music. Emulating Midnight Tomcats. Chronic Beggary. The Old Parisian Woman with Wooden Legs. A Buddhist Rock-Temple.

We keep the plate rocking from side to side, so as to prevent the fluid running in lines, as it has a tendency to do. The neglect of this precaution is evident in some otherwise excellent photographs; we notice it, for instance, in Frith's Abou Simbel, No. 1, the magnificent rock-temple façade.