Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . fortified. The interior has some appear-ance of an English town. Its harbor, which is small, is defended by several forts. In the afternoon, taking my eldest son, we loaded my organ on a wagon in order to visitMortura and give my first evening of song in that city. On the road we encountered areligious procession, coinposed of several hundred natives, making loud and most discordantsounds on all sorts of rude instruments, which evidently seemed to them to emit the gran
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . fortified. The interior has some appear-ance of an English town. Its harbor, which is small, is defended by several forts. In the afternoon, taking my eldest son, we loaded my organ on a wagon in order to visitMortura and give my first evening of song in that city. On the road we encountered areligious procession, coinposed of several hundred natives, making loud and most discordantsounds on all sorts of rude instruments, which evidently seemed to them to emit the grandestmusic. I could not help thinking that this was a strange prelude to my singing; but it fired C/.VXaMON GAO J 77 my heart to sing with new ardor the sweet old story of Gods love. Iassiiig by a numberof cinnamon groves, our curiosity led us to stop at one of them, where we peeled off thegreen bark from one of the shrubs, and took it away as a curiosity. The soil where thisshrub grows most luxuriantly, has a white ajipearance, reminding one of the famous alkalinebeds which we see in crossing our own continent. ^Wm. PEELING CINNAMON-IIAKK, CEVI-ON. On Thursday, November nth. we took train for Kandy, the ancient capital of Ceylon,accomplishing the ride of seventy miles in four hours and a half. The scenery on this tripwas most enchanting, combining the grandeur of the .Mpine view with the splendor of trop-ical vegetation. It was a perfect panorama, hill, valley, plain, gorge, ravine, and cascade,of foliage, fruit, and flower, with great paddi, or rice-fields and coffee-bush plantations onevery hand, in which were to be seen the natives at their accustomed toil. The residentmissionary, the Rev. Mr. Tebb. was waiting at the station, and escorted us to his home. On Friday morning our kind host took us to the public gardens, which overlook the 7S CO/-/•/?:/?: tks. dred and fifty acres. Wc entered the jiroinids through ihdiii, iiri-s wliosc :irr:i\- ciT n-r
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