Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . begging all the time. Mama,give my a penny, my so , mama, just one make you salaam, you justgive one penny, my very hun-gry, my so poor, you got plen-ty money, my so she would draw downthe corners of her mouth andput on a pensive look, and inspite of herself would breakinto a merry smile. She didnot appear to be sufferingfrom hunger, neither was shevery poor as one reckons pov-erty in Ceylon, yet it wasalmost impossible to resist herimportunities. She was quickto se
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . begging all the time. Mama,give my a penny, my so , mama, just one make you salaam, you justgive one penny, my very hun-gry, my so poor, you got plen-ty money, my so she would draw downthe corners of her mouth andput on a pensive look, and inspite of herself would breakinto a merry smile. She didnot appear to be sufferingfrom hunger, neither was shevery poor as one reckons pov-erty in Ceylon, yet it wasalmost impossible to resist herimportunities. She was quickto see my helplessness and wasalways lying in wait for me. The little brown babies in Ceylon were attractive, every woman carried a baby sitting astride her hip,while she threw one arm around it to keep it from falling,and the little creatures looked around with as much interestand wonder as any American baby would show. It was simply impossible to pass them by without speak-ing to them, and at least patting their chubby the little hand opened for a penny, for they learn. COLOMBO CHILDKEN. 618 MEN IN GIRLISH ATTIRE. to beg before they learn to walk. It is comparatively easyto resist a larger beggar, but when a little hand is stretchedout for alms the temptation to give is very strong. The people in Colombo are all interesting, because somany different nationalities are represented — Hindus, Por-tuguese, Malays, Singhalese, and many others, each oneseemingly more picturesque than the others. Many of the men wore their hair lono- anddone up in a pug behind, whileothers wore round combs onthe top of their heads, such aslittle girls at home often wearto keep their hair out of theireyes. Imagine a tall, full-bearded, imposing lookingman, brown faced and bare-footed, dressed in a white jack-et, with a plaid skirt reachingdown to his knees, a roundcomb on the top of his head,and a generous pug is a picture of all thewaiters at the hotel, and theymak
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