. The science of railways . A local express. phant is found in his native state in the almostimpassable jungles of the interior. The greatherds that at one time roamed through this dis-trict have been greatly diminished by elephant is royal game, and the public onlyregrets that the animals intelligence is not suffi-cient to enable it to exterminate those who assailit for sport merely. The pleasure of the sports-man in pursuing his quarry is not to be comparedto the delight we should feel in seeing the quarrypursue the hunter. 356 CARRIAGE IN CEYLON. Au interesting feature of Ceylon
. The science of railways . A local express. phant is found in his native state in the almostimpassable jungles of the interior. The greatherds that at one time roamed through this dis-trict have been greatly diminished by elephant is royal game, and the public onlyregrets that the animals intelligence is not suffi-cient to enable it to exterminate those who assailit for sport merely. The pleasure of the sports-man in pursuing his quarry is not to be comparedto the delight we should feel in seeing the quarrypursue the hunter. 356 CARRIAGE IN CEYLON. Au interesting feature of Ceylon is its quaintmethods of water transportation. The islandinhabitants of the southeastern seas, includingthose who inhabit the Malay Peninsula, havetheir own fashions in water craft. These fash-ions, while interesting, would not prove adequatein the case of people whose commercial interestswere great, or who were travelers. They areample, however, to meet the simple wants of theSouth Sea On the Colombo River, Ceylon is an island in the Indian Ocean, aboutone hundred miles from the southern extremityof India. It is two hundred and seventy-onemiles in length, and its greatest breadth onehundred and thirty-seven miles. Its area isabout twenty-four thousand square miles, andits population between three and four active construction of railways is encour-aged. VARRIAGE IN CEYLON. 357
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