was tired of Ceylon; and my longing to get home increases as the prospect of my doing so becomes more real.  I was ill, too, at Ceylon.  The heat was very great; and I was, I fear, somewhat imprudent.  On the day after I despatched my last letter to you from Colombo, I started for Kandy, a pretty little countrytown seated in the centre of a circle of hills.  I reached it at 5 P.M., time enough to walk about the very beautiful grounds of the ‘Pavilion,’ the Governor’s residence.  Next day, after seeing the shrine which contains the famous tooth of Buddha, I set off for the mountains, and reached a coffee estate of Baron Delmar’s at about 6 P.M.  We found ourselves in a fine cool climate, at about 3,000 feet above the sea.  That night, however, I felt a shiver as I went to bed.  I had a bad headache next morning, and when I arrived at Newra Elyia, the famous sanatarium, 6,000 feet above the sea, I was obliged to go to bed, and send for the doctor.  I could not remain quiet, however, as the packet from England might be at Galle on the 3rd; so I had to hurry down on Friday from the mountain to Kandy and Colombo, where I arrived on Saturday evening more dead than alive.  Sir H. Ward’s doctor declared me to be labouring under an attack of jungle fever....  I sent for the ‘Furious,’ which conveyed me from Colombo to Galle on Monday the 4th.  Frederick did not arrive till the 6th; so all ended well.  It was an unspeakable comfort to me to meet Frederick at last We had a day to talk over our affairs, as he did not proceed till the afternoon of the 7th....  I am pleased with Ceylon, notwithstanding my mishaps.  For a tropical climate it is healthy and bearable; but we happened to be there at the very hottest season.  At Newra Elyia it is really cold, and, at the height of the coffee estates, very tolerable to vegetate in.

The rapid homeward journey along a beaten route offered little of interest to write about, especially as he was likely to be the bearer of his own letter.  On the 19th of May he reported to the Foreign Office his arrival in London.

[1] The text of the Article respecting opium is as follows:—­’Opium will
    henceforth, pay thirty taels per picul import duty.  The importer will
    sell it only at the port.  It will be carried into the interior by
    Chinese only, and only as Chinese property; the Foreign trader will
    not be allowed to accompany it.  The provisions of Article IX. of the
    Treaty of Tientsin, by which British subjects are authorised to
    proceed into the interior with passports to trade, will not extend to
    it, nor will those of Article XXVIII. of the same Treaty, by which the
    transit-dues are regulated; the transit-dues on it will be arranged as
    the Chinese Government see fit; nor, in future revisions of the
    Tariff, is the rule of revision to be applied to opium as to other
    goods.’