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Letter #15

Nawara Eliza
Ceylon, Dec. 20th, 1894.

Dear Mr. Hecker.

The ocean trip from Marseilles proved charming to the very end - Colombo.

Quickly after landing the 13th inst. I cabled you "Well, Love, Oriental Hotel." The latter hotel, at Colombo, will be my address in Ceylon - and communications so addressed will doubtless reach me. I remained at Colombo long enough to get rid of my sea legs, and then while strong, and in condition for the hardest climb of my life in preparation for which I had been training daily on shipboard, I started for Adams Peaks!! This peak is as you doubtless know, the "holy of holies" to the Buddhists, the Mahommedans, and to many Roman Catholics.

From the earliest days of human history 

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