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There is still another crow-roost nearer to Colombo, at Mount Lavonia, in the thick palm groves which skirt the shore, within rifle-shot of that pleasant summer resort. When they awake in the early morning and prepare for their flight cityward, the combined noise which they make is something like the roar of artillery. Birds on the Rampage. Familiar Nuisances. Silver-Spoon Thieves.
Probably before these pages reach the public eye, this long-needed road will be in running order between the two cities, passing through Mount Lavonia, the comparatively cool and pleasant summer resort, Morotto, Panadura, Kalatura, Bentola, famous for its oysters and as being the half-way station, and so on, through the several shore settlements to Galle.
Doctrine of Metempsychosis. Various Nationalities forming the Population. Common Languages. Tamils are the Wage-Earners. The Singhalese Proper are Agriculturists. Queer Belief in Demons. Propitiation! The Veddahs. Attacking Wild Elephants. Serpent Worship. Polyandry. Native Singhalese Women. Dress of Both Sexes. Streets of Colombo on a Gala Day. An English Four-in-Hand. Mount Lavonia.
This hotel is a conspicuous white building, and forms a familiar landmark for inward-bound vessels. It is much cooler at Lavonia than at Colombo, as the location is more open to the sea breezes, besides being upon an elevation.
The citizens of Herakleia had reduced into dependence a considerable portion of the neighboring Mariandyni, and held them in a relation resembling that of the natives of Esthonia and Lavonia to the German colonies in the Baltic.
An occasional stranger and some humble natives respond to his appeals by contributing a few pennies, but the aggregate of his collection must be very small. There dashes by us, while we watch the scene, a gay party of English residents in a four-horse drag, bound to Mount Lavonia.
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