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only one sort of Hooded dray with two bullocks attached. A run to Cinnamon Gardens is well worth while – can buy Bunches of Bananas 1/- Pineapples 1/- dozen – Some very fine buildings substantial also. Some big retail houses & Hotels. The Barracks are fine buildings, with a permanent staff of some 300 trained men, Cingales, Sikhs & Indians.
Some of our fellows tried to play up but they soon found they were up against trained & disciplined men, who promptly sat on them. The women folk work just as hard if not harder than the men.
Colombo seems to be quite a busy port, about 30 vessels lying now, also 2 Troopships returning, one has 600 wounded on – Major Argyle went off to interview, says a great lot of shrapnel wounds & eye wounds & a great amount of crutches are prominent. There are