. Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan. gh thousands have been converted to theChristian faith. The Mohammedan Moormen, liv-ing on the coast, approximate a quarter of amillion in number. Europeans of all nationali-ties, not including the British troops, total only6,500, a percentage of the islands human family tobe computed in fractions. The Cingalese seen chiefly in the towns weartheir long hair arranged like a womans, andaround their heads a large, semicircular comb ofshell, as has been said. The comb has nothing todo with religion or caste—contrary to what avisitor is u
. Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan. gh thousands have been converted to theChristian faith. The Mohammedan Moormen, liv-ing on the coast, approximate a quarter of amillion in number. Europeans of all nationali-ties, not including the British troops, total only6,500, a percentage of the islands human family tobe computed in fractions. The Cingalese seen chiefly in the towns weartheir long hair arranged like a womans, andaround their heads a large, semicircular comb ofshell, as has been said. The comb has nothing todo with religion or caste—contrary to what avisitor is usually told; it merely announces thewearer to be not of the coolie class, who carrysacks of rice and cases of merchandise on theirheads. Half the people of Ceylon wear no head-gear, and not two per cent, know what it is to wearshoes. Colombos population is about 160,000. Thecapital is a handsome city, with communities onseafront, on the shores of a sinuous lake, andranging inland for miles through cinnamon gar-dens and groves of cocoanut-palms. Queens 44. REPKESENTATIOX OF BUDDHAS TOOTH, COLOMBO MUSEUM Colombo, Ceylons Seaport House, where the governor resides, is a rambling-pile. The general jjost-office is the best buildingin the capital, and the museum and Princes club,close by, are entitled to notice. The hard red-soilroads of the city extend for miles into the palmforests, and are equal to any in the world. Gov-ernment officials and European commercial peoplelive in handsome suburban bungalows smotheredamid superb foliage trees and flowering shrubsand vines. What were called the maritime provinces ofCeylon were ruled by the Dutch until 1796. Butin that year England supplanted Holland, and in1815 she secured control of the entire island byoverthrowing the Kandyan kingdom, for a long-time confining European invasion to the islandsseaboard. Ceylon costs Britain little worry andpractically no expenditure. Strategically the is-land is valueless, save the benefit accruing toEn
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