"Point de Galle, Ceylon" Size:medium P&O steamers would arrive here

P&O steamers would arrive here late at night and passengers and baggage would be met by camels

also in the P&O Heritage Collection

As noted here INDIA (1896) held the record for delivering the London Mails at Fremantle

but you can write to there

Down the river - Tight navigation'

"Point de Galle, Ceylon" Size:medium P&O steamers would arrive here"A more beautiful and picturesque scene cannot be offered to the eye of the traveller wearied with the continued expanse of azure and ultramarine". At Point de Galle P&O established another agency and coal depots for onward journeys. Re fuelling meant passengers had time enough to explore the cinnamon gardens of the interior.