ORIGINAL MUSEUM
; t Moat of the Europeans Jive in ? the K Cinnamon Gardens," near Victoria Park, in the- vicinity of which is the Oriental Museum —a place well worth a visit# Another i interesting building is the Kelani Temple, a short distance from Colombo. Typical foods you may/ sample are curries dfrd such fruits as the sugar banana, the paw-paw and the 'mango. If you are able to recognise it, 1 you may notice a strong vein of Portuguese in the Colombo dialect —a relic of the town’s early history, when both - the Portuguese and the Dutch occupied it. i | ' (Map and text by courtesy L ' of L/Cpl J. Hill).
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Dit-Dah, Volume 2, Issue 5, 27 January 1940, Page 2
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