Chapter 2

Mighty Kinchinjanga--The inconceivable splendours of a Himalayan sunrise--The last Indian telegraph office--The irrepressible British Tommy--An improvised garden--An improvised Durbar hall--A splendid ceremony--A native dinner--The disguised Europeans--Our shocking table-manners--Incidents--Two impersonations; one successful, the other the reverse--I come off badly--Indian jugglers--The rope-trick--The juggler, the rope, and the boy--An inexplicable incident--A performing cobra scores a success--Ceylon "Devil Dancers"--Their performance--The Temple of the Tooth--The uncovering of the Tooth--Details concerning--An abominable libel--Tea and coffee--Peradeniya Gardens--The upas tree of Java--Colombo an Eastern Clapham Junction--The French lady and the savages--The small Bermudian and the inhabitants of England