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fascinating, the homes the simplest, the people, excepting foreigners, the happiest and the temple ruins --- well, they must be classed with the most important extant. So, you will know that notwithstanding my usual "croaking" I have passed the three weeks and more here most satisfactorily. Each day has had for me extraordinary contrasts and my experiences are still too confused to be intelligible to myself. It will take months to ascertain my own permanent impressions and remove from the lot the ones which I would not retain. As you know, I came principally to study the early Hindu and Buddhistic ruins and I hoped to see all on the island. The most important, according to the natives, I have seen, but to several places I could not go --- no means of access without buying horses, camping outfit etc., etc. Besides it's the wrong season to go, too high in the mountains, and those I missed seeing lie over 9,000 ft. above sea level. I must return another year in May and June, (after the rains, --- it now rains every day, every afternoon) when the mountain roads are dry and when horses can be hired for certain trips, and after I can have obtained in some way, more accurate information concerning lots of things which the Dutchmen don't know or won't tell. However, from the ruined temples seen I learned much more than I had expected from the entire lot, and, so, I should be content, but my nature still craves the remainder, it calls also for the ruins of Bali, --- a nearby island, for those in Siam and Cambodjia, but I must digest by degrees and I must treasure my strength. I start at 5 A.M. daily and quit at one noon,--- rest every afternoon and go to bed never later than nine thirty. Consequently, each morning finds me refreshed and eager. I have never felt stronger and never passed more interesting days. There is nothing like health and plenty of interesting study! The difference of studying for one's own instruction and working for a corporation is, if failure results, in the first instance I am the only loser, in the second case many might be injured. And this contents me and makes me very happy. After reaching Singapore I shall take advantage of the first good passage I can secure for Japan. I think I may be able to go on a Hamburg-American ship about March 27th which will land me in Japan about April 12th, but there is no certainty until ships actually arrive at Singapore, all are so crowded. The Orient is wide awake! Europe and America must not sleep! Think of 30,000,000 working people (everybody works here, men, women and children) on the little island of Java. But I must stop my wandering --- Later my thoughts will be clearer and when we meet, I hope to be able to tell something worth while concerning my impressions of this grand island.

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