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Title: Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Penfield, Frederic Courtland, 1855-1922
Subjects: East Asia -- Description and travel India -- Description and travel Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : George Bell and Sons New York : Century co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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able is speciallyreserved, and gives his orders like one accustomedto being obeyed, you fancy him to be an accom-plished diplomatist, very likely having in hispocket the draft of a treaty affecting half the peo-ple of the Far East. No one seems ever to suspecthis confreres of being mere business men. And theladies—well, they may be duchesses or dress-makers no longer content with traveling on theContinong; nobody cares which. If they arevery well gowned, probably they are the latter. An army of waiters clad in spotless and snowyuniforms with red facings and shining buttons setbefore you dishes you never heard of. Some aresatisfying in the extreme; but these waiters, canthey be described as in uniform? True, theirgarments are alike, but the head-gear is of infinitevariety. According to caste or nationality eachproclaims himself. But look once more; there isuniformity, for all are barefooted. Wonderful fellows these Easterns. The nativehotel band, led by a wandering European, plays 40
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A HIGH PRIEST OF BUDDHA Colombo, Ceylons Seaport Sousas marches and Hiawatha, yes, evenTammany, with accuracy; and the cooks pre-pare dishes with French names, make vin hlancand Hollandaise sauces worthy of Dehiionico orRitz, and this without permitting the palate toguide them. If they tasted food concocted forChristians a million kinds of perdition might betheir punishment. Music may be mechanical, asit is claimed to be, but not cooking. How do thegastronomic experts of pagan Asia acquire theirskill? Considering that the Ceylon capital is only fourhundred miles north of the equator, the heat isnever extremely oppressive. Ones energies there,nevertheless, are not what they are farther northor at higher elevations. Kandy, the ancient up-country capital, is cooler, and Nuwara Eliya, inthe mountains, is actually cold at night. Whenwhite people do anything in Colombo—work, at-tend church, play bridge, or billiards—a nativekeeps them moderately comfortable with swing-ing punkahs. Some

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