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^[[Some of]] The [[underline]] mud houses are neatly whitewashed [[/underline]] in an outside.  [[underline]] Big Royal Ponciana [[/underline]] shade trees in full red-orange bloom, arching over the streets. Same procession of natives on the roads, as in Java. In [[underline]] honor of King's [[/underline]] Birthday, [[strikethrough]] make [[/strikethrough]] many [[underline]] natives are erecting [[/underline]] pretty [[underline]] decorative arches [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] leac [[/strikethrough]] of [[strikethrough]] pa [[/strikethrough]] coco-nut palm leaves, leading to entrance of their houses.
Yellow [[underline]] robes Bonzes [[/underline]] as in [[underline]] Siam [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Cambodgia [[/underline]] are seen again marching along the roads, carrying an umbrella and a [[underline]] circular palm-leaf [[/underline]] fan, [[underline]] same as one sees in [[/underline]] the [[strikethrough]] resta [[/strikethrough]] New York Restaurants in summer time. The "Yoon"
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or [[underline]] "Bonzillion" [[/underline]] as the French call him, follows the Bonze but [[strikethrough]] bu [[/strikethrough]] is not yellow robed merely carries a piece of yellow fabric attached somewhere. I notice on the road, as well as in Colombo that the meat stores or Butcher shops are the meeting place for [[underline]] black [[strikethrough]] clo [[/strikethrough]] crows [[/underline]] which sit or fly about and now and then pick off a piece of meat with [[underline]] which they fly away. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Bonzes [[/underline]] seem rather [[underline]] respected. [[/underline]] My chauffeur who drives rather fast and does not mind bespattering the passers by, drives very slowly when he passes a bonze.  People seem [[underline]] kind to horses, Buffalos, birds and dogs. [[/underline]] The [[underline]] latter lie in the middle [[/underline]]