kesinde

Updated: May 20, 2025

A long day's journey through a burning sun brought us to Sitrawelle. This is a small village, about six miles inward from the sea-coast village of Kesinde. Here the natives brought us plantains and buffalo milk, while we took shelter from the sun under a splendid tamarind tree. The tamarind-tree was nearly the same size; and I never saw together two such magnificent specimens of vegetation.

Sir Samuel White Baker - The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon