Three whale boats with jibs + mains sails L. 30. P. 3. put off to intercept us & pick up the band. Evidently shaving is not one of the popular pastimes on the island! Chief product is copra. April 29th - Reached Colombo, Ceylon about 6.30 a.m. The ship lay at anchor inside the harbor + canvices took people to & fro. Had to make a few purchases & then went out to the museum (in Cinnamon Gardens). Met the Director - Malfass. Phillips in charge of specimens in an honorary capacity but was away at his tea plantation. However Malfass gave me a guide who opened the mineral collection! That I specially wanted to see, namely the Murides. 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 seems with humanity, beggars, mosquito traps; also ox drawn vehicles & carts pulled by donkey like native hilllocks with high saddles & their heads low lying. Lots of color everywhere. Road so narrow that two cars can hardly pass. We sailed on home + a half hour (7.30 p.m.) May 2. Aden. Dry, diet depressing volcanic country. The only color is provided by brightly colored native dresses. Big coaling & oil fueling station. Blazing hot. Camels draft wagons about. About 100 miles I found motor roads. All the passengers were in the native store when things 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 5/- each (English). Hotels comfortable; tea good. Quantities of salt manufactures in evaporating tanks & stacked up in dazzling