en CB01 OFFICIAL. Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always entertaining in their methods of daily life. Mr. Holmes will first take your patrons along the beautiful palm-fringed shores of Ceylon and finally bring them to the city of Colombo from the sea. In Colombo bathing is the chief topic of interest, every man, woman and child bathe in the waters of Colombo.