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burn the bottom of a prahn with coconut leaves about once a month in order to keep worms from entering the wood, but here there are no coconuts, so I will burn it at Derawan or Pulo Pandjang.

    There are lots of trees about here but no land within sight except at low tide when the reefs are all bare and look like a desert with here & there a native hunting for fish or anything else that the tide might have left. At dusk, I went in the canoe and shot some curlew which had come in the bay to roost and earlier in the day got a great Blue Heron. The wind has been due north.

Monday, April 7, 1913.
   Samoentai.

        The wind is north and northwest, which is the most unfavorable way in which it could blow.

        Many Baja[[strikethrough]n[[/strikethrough]]^[[u]]s have come on board to-day and asked for medicine, etc. There are more of them sick in this kampong than anywhere I have been; the majority of the sick are children who have various kinds of skin diseases, cuts, boils, bumps, swollen legs, sore eyes and fever. One child not more than 18 months old was brought to me to be examined. It looked rather sleepy but otherwise not unhealthy. Its body felt very hot, so I put the thermometer under its arm and held it close to its body and was surprised to see its temperature was 104.02°. I told the mother the child was much sicker than she supposed & she must be very careful of it and give it the medicine and watch carefully its food. She did not seem alarmed or worried about it, however.

     Most of the day has been very hot, but later there was lots of thunder and some rain.