text:  If however as to Paradise in connexion with Ceylon we are forced to say "_No_ " if as to Taprobane in connexion with Ceylon we say both "_Yes_" and "_No_ "--not the less we come back with a reiterated "_Yes yes yes_ " upon Ceylon as the crest and eagle's plume of the Indies as the priceless pearl the ruby without a flaw and (once again we say it) as the Pandora of oriental islands