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most important extant. So, you will know that notwithstanding my usual "croaking" I have passed the three weeks & more here most satisfactorily. Each day has had for me extraordinary contrasts and my experiences are still too confused to be intelligble to myself. It will take months to ascertain my own permanent impressions and remove from the lot the ones which I would not retain.  As you know, I came principally to study the early Hindu and Buddhistic ruins and I hoped to see all on the island.  The most important, according to the natives, I have seen, but to several places I could not go--no means of access without buying horses, camping outfit &c. &c.  Besides it's the wrong season to go, too high in the mountains, and those I missed seeing lie over 9000 ft above sea level.  I must return another year in May and June (after the rains [[underline]] it now rains every day, every afternoon [[/underline]])  when the