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1 1929 Dear Mother, I'm going to write and tell you about Colombo. As you probably know, by looking at your map - Columbo is on an island called Ceylon. The boat having reached there about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, we got off and went into the village. The wharf was surrounded by the natives, some wearing a piece of cloth draped below their waist and some not so much. They are a very, very brown class of people, not black like our negroes and some of them can speak a little English. We visited the Budda temple. Had to take off our shoes before entering.