Three whale boats with jib & mainsails L. 30. P.3. put off to intercept us & pick up the panel. Evidently shaving is not one of the popular pastimes on the island! Chief product is copra. April 27th - Reached Colombo, Ceylon about 6.30 a.m. The ship lay at anchor inside the harbor & landed three people to go ashore. Had to make a few purchases & then went out to the museum (in Camamon Gardens). Met the Director - Melfosa. Phillips is curator of mammals in an honorary capacity but was away at his tea plantation. However Melfosa gave me a guide who showed the mammal collection that I specially wanted to see, namely the Muridae. Most of the skulls are uncleaned! Later had lunch at Galleface Hotel & went for a drive to Mt. Lavinia - which proved not to be a mount at all but a hotel on the sea-shore. However there was an aquarium there. Colombo streets with humanity, beggars, rickshaw boys; also ox-drawn vehicles & carts pulled by those queer like nature bullocks with high shoulders & their heads low-hung. Lots of color everywhere. Roads so narrow that two cars can barely pass. We sailed an hour & a half late (7.30 pm.) May 2. Aden. Dry, dirt depressing volcanic country. The only color is provided by brightly colored native dresses. Big cooling oil-fueling station. Blazing hot. Camel's draft wagon about. About 100 miles of good motor roads. All the passengers were in the native stores when theirs were very cheap owing to the fact that Aden is a free port. I picked up a couple of silk things for E. for only $7- each (English). Hotels abominable; tea good. Quantities of salt manufacturers in wrapping tanks & stacked up there in dazzling