", the street in the in which the 's office is situated, and which was the first I became acquainted with on landing, is decorated like many others in and , with shady avenues of a fine mallow, '; the large yellow or red blossoms strew the earth in every direction. Chatham Street also contains those shops which alone possessed any interest for me in all Colombo — windows full of photographs, and stalls with living animals. Within a few hours of my arrival in Ceylon, I had the very great pleasure of forming an idea, from the photographs in the windows, of the finest points in the wild highlands and the picturesque coast, as well as of the astounding marvels of its magnificent vegetation: s and , ' and s, tree-ferns, s, etc. Nor did I, naturally, find less attraction in making myself acquainted, before I had been many hours in the island, with some of its most interesting animals; above all, the apes, the dappled , the parrots and the gorgeously coloured pigeons."
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