[CHAPTER XX.]
TRAVELLING IN CEYLON.—WILD ELEPHANTS AND THEIR HABITS.—ENCOUNTER WITH A BUFFALO.—FROM KANDY TO NEWERA-ELLIA.
A day was devoted to letter-writing, and to drives and walks around Kandy, and then the boys asked the Doctor where they were to go next.
"There are two or three routes from which to choose," was the reply, "and each has its own peculiar advantages, or the reverse. I have been considering them, and have selected the one that gives us the most to see in the little time we have at our disposal. We will start to-morrow morning for Newera-Ellia, which is on the road to Adam's Peak."
"Perhaps we will climb the peak," exclaimed Frank, "and repeat our experience of Fusiyama in Japan."
"Perhaps!" echoed Fred; "but we won't be certain of it till we have done it. But please tell us about the other routes you thought of," he added, addressing himself to Doctor Bronson.
