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that Castle Hot Springs will restore her fully. It is most fortunate that the proposed trip to Sicily was given up. All Europe is having such terrible weather. I have been just beyond its ravages and have revelled the most of the time in the finest weather imaginable. Here too, the days are fine and I am starting right away for the interior. I have planned under the guidance of Mr. Still Ass't Archeological Chief of Ceylon a trip to the Buddhistic ruins of the Island. They lie in remote districts and are hellish places to reach but, this is the last effort I shall ever make to see them, and I undertake the journey with the best of care and armed with every help the authorities can give to anyone. Mr. Still is an unusually fine man whom I met by accident