My Circular Notes (Volume 2); Extracts from Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and Other Notes, Written While Travelling Westwards Round the World, from July 6, 1874, to July 6, 1875 - Softcover
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Excerpt: ... SINHALESE HOUSEKEEPING. 180 No. LVII. Colombo, Ceylon, Whit-Sunday, May 16tfi, 1875. My Dear Mother, Three of iny letters are to start with me in the French mail from Galle to-morrow, and this will join the party and go home faster than I. I have written to Bombay to send my letters home. It is too hot to travel about India now. Possibly I may find it too hot to travel about Egypt. In that case I shall go on to Marseilles, and possibly get home before the year of wandering is ended--some time in June. Make me some stockings for I am nearly barefoot. I don't think that I have ever told you what I got to eat. As a housewife with a good cook it may interest you, so here goes for family information. A very pleasant, athletic old gentleman who had been along our road printed advice to travellers and told them to take "everything." Above all, they were to carry beds and mosquito curtains, a filter, and a lot of chickens in coops. The result in his case was a train of dark-skinned bearers streaming along the road with all these things poised on their pates. As soon as I got clear of the adviser 1 begged G. C. to take nothing instead of everything. He would take some tins of sardines, one of salt butter, and several of preserved, nasty meats, and these have made the round and are here except the butter, which ran away. I fancy it came from Finland; I believe I have seen it there, and it was nasty from the beginning. Now the fashion of white men in this land of plenty is to live as if they were in desolation. They feed on tinned soups and rags of stewed beef years old, they eat raspberry jam and cranberries from beyond seas, and gooseberries, and they are of that species for so doing. The fashion of the natives is to go into the jungle, and cut down creepers and dig up roots, and climb palms...
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