India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . e way back to the hotel we passed thefamous Buddhist Temple of the Tooth with itspagoda-like roof, but it looks but an insignificantbuilding to be the centre of Buddhistic reverenceand tribute. This was a lovely moonlight night, and thewalk by the lake would have been perfect but forthe touts and vendors of all sorts of things thatyou do not want. We left Kandy the next morning for Nuwara-Eliya our travelling companions were two Germansfrom Berlin, father and son. The train continuedto climb, the line curvi
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . e way back to the hotel we passed thefamous Buddhist Temple of the Tooth with itspagoda-like roof, but it looks but an insignificantbuilding to be the centre of Buddhistic reverenceand tribute. This was a lovely moonlight night, and thewalk by the lake would have been perfect but forthe touts and vendors of all sorts of things thatyou do not want. We left Kandy the next morning for Nuwara-Eliya our travelling companions were two Germansfrom Berlin, father and son. The train continuedto climb, the line curving more sharply than saw some fine mountain distances and AdamsPeak rising up afar, and soon entered a vast tea-planted district the tea plants often bordering therailway line, and covering the slopes of the hillswhich seemed covered with a more or less regular NOTES OF CEYLON 303 green pattern, the dark velvety green of the teaplants intersected by the light feathery foliage ofyoung rubber-trees, planted in regular rows at in-tervals in some places. The landscape was very. TEA PLANTATION, CEYLON She liked coffee, and I liked tea,And that is the reason we always agree ! clear and every detail sharply defined in the brightsunlight, with very little suggestion of atmosphere,except for the mountain distances which were deepblue. In the afternoon about four or five oclock wereached Nanu-oya station, where we had to changeinto a narrow-gauge train to finish the last partof the journey to Nuwara-Eliya. We continued 304 INDIA IMPRESSIONS to climb in shorter and more loop-like curves,bein^ able often to gaze down on the line we hadjust traversed winding below like a glittering-serpent among the wooded hills and tea planta-tions. Tea everywhere, and not a drop to drink—yet suggesting potentially more than the wholeworld could consume. Something after five found us at Nuwara-Eliyawhere we got into a wagonette, and a good pair ofgreys brought us through the village to the StAn
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