We enter a world of steamships, nascent railway lines, stately hotels, and British supremacy, narrated with ease and simplicity. Twain seems to have witnessed a sari for the first time in Ceylon: “Sometimes a woman’s whole dress was but a scarf wound about her person and her head.” His heart breaks when he sees Western attire on local kids, upon which his tone becomes penitential and terribly hilarious. He refuses to believe that the famous Temple of the Tooth in Kandy houses the Buddha’s actual tooth. The American industrialist Andrew Carnegie (expectedly) pronounces Ceylon to be “the best example of English government in the world, England herself not excepted”.