That was Oriental, but there was a lack.

When you are in Florida or New Orleans you are in the South--that is granted; but you are not in the South; you are in a modified South, a tempered South.

Cairo was a tempered Orient--an Orient with an indefinite something wanting.

That feeling was not present in Ceylon.

Ceylon was Oriental in the last measure of completeness--utterly Oriental; also utterly tropical; and indeed to one's unreasoning spiritual sense the two things belong together.