Ceylon: Beaten Track

ancient appeared asked beautiful began building built called carried cave Ceylon climbed close coconut Colombo coming covered crossed dagoba dark Dutch elephants eyes face feet fields fire followed foot forced four Gampola gardens give grass green hand head heard hill hundred India island Jaffna jungle Kandy kind King land light lived looked marched miles morning mountain never night once palace passed path perhaps Portuguese present priests remained Resthouse returned river road rock round says seemed seen ship showed side Sinhalese soldiers soon standing steps stone stood story stretch tank temple thought thousand took town travellers trees turned village visited walked walls whole wide wild writes