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We found that the pineapples in Ceylon were far sweeter that the
ones we were used to from Hawaii. The bananas were also very good. In
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and I would sit and talk with Janet and Richard. We really enjoyed our
discussions with our teenagers without the interruption by and attention
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pineapple and then cut vertical strips for each of us to eat. After the lack
of fresh fruit in Arabia, it was great!

After a couple of days we began a tour of other areas in Ceylon.
In Kandy we visited the Temple of the Tooth. The feature there is a tooth
that is supposed to have belonged to Buddha. I had a question as to its
authenticity – the tooth was big enough to have belonged to a horse! At
Peradeniya we toured a marvelous arboretum that had been developed
by the British people, nearly all of whom had left Ceylon. They had a
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stand that Lord Mountbatten had his headquarters in this area when he
commanded British forces in the India and Burma campaigns of World
War II. One day we saw a fruit peddler beside the road and stopped to
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think of super-sized Thompson seedless grapes. We all loved them. In
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ent from any we had ever seen before. The sand was black, being the
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we had ever seen. A large, very-slow moving river runs through the
city and it is deep enough for large-size freight ships to enter from the
ocean and unload there. We had a most interesting trip on a small boat
that went up the river. All forms of life took place there. We took 16mm
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school uniforms waiting to be picked up by boat to be taken to school.
We were astonished to see women washing clothes in the muddy river
and then seeing such clothes hanging sparkling clean and white on the
clothesline. We passed a boat-building yard where men were sawing
huge tree trunks by hand with a horizontal saw going back and forth be-
tween either side of the tree trunk. The river was a highway to the entire
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