They are very simple, shaded with cocoa-trees and surrounded with stone walls.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, we drove over two draw-bridges and through two fortified gateways into the town, which is far more pleasantly situated than Pointe de Galle, on account of its nearer proximity to the beautiful mountain ranges.
I only stopped a night here, and on the following morning again resumed my journey in the mail to the town of Candy, which is distant seventy-two miles.
We left on the 20th of October, at 5 o'clock in the morning.
Colombo is a very extensive town.

We drove through a succession of long, broad streets of handsome houses, all of which latter were surrounded by verandahs and colonnades.

I was very much startled at the number of persons lying stretched out at full length under these verandahs, and covered with white clothes.

I at first mistook them for corpses, but I soon perceived that their number was too great to warrant that supposition, and I then discovered that they were only asleep.