VIEW OF THE COAST NEAR GALLE HARBOR.
[CHAPTER XVII.]
SIGHTS IN POINT DE GALLE.—OVERLAND TO COLOMBO.
Our friends went to the Oriental Hotel, the principal hostelry in the city, and thence to the banker's, where it was thought there might possibly be letters waiting for them. Frank remarked that the streets were very quiet for a place of as much importance as Galle, but Fred reminded him that its chief business was to serve as a coaling-station for steamers, and it was not to be expected that the steamers would come up into the streets to get their coal. Frank acknowledged the force of his cousin's argument, and the subject of conversation was changed.
