The journey to Ceylon were, however, to play almost no part in Lawrence's subsequent writing. Ceylon was thus most certainly not a place in which to stop for long, on an extremely expensive journey which depended in part upon Lawrence earning money as he travelled. After only six weeks, he and Frieda moved on - but still not yet to America. They headed first toward Australia, to take up invitations received from ship-board acquaintances on the journey out to Colombo, but not with any particular expectation:.. Having cut loose, loose he would now remain. hey landed in Perth on 4th May 1922 but only stayed in Western Australia a fortnight before taking the next boat on to Sydney. They were a little overwhelmed by the hospitality of their friends, though the place and the atmosphere of a late Australian autumn were a great relief after Ceylon: …The best thing in Western Australia was the bush, …..: the contrast with Ceylon's noisy forest could not have been clearer. Lawrence's most significant meeting was with the writer Mollie Skinner : it was her manuscript which, the following year, he would transform into The Boy in the Bush.
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