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Colombo,

1910

Mount Lavinia, Colombo.

Mount Lavinia is just south of Colombo

There are two explanations for the name Mount Lavinia. The first is that the Sinhalese name for this area was "Lihinya Kanda" which means "hill of the sea gull". The second, and more romantic, involves the British Governor Sir Thomas Maitland falling in love with a local dancing girl named Lovina Aponsuwa,

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The Colombo Apothecaries

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