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pickle. About 5:00 o'clock I went to the P.O. & then returned to Pasang Grahan & Mr. Olmeyer called and talked for a few minutes.

Wednesday, July 10, 1912.
Samarinda.
C., R.
Arise about 6:40 and go to Mr. Olmeyer's & there meet 2 Bajows & talk to them regarding taking me to the Bereau with their sapit; take them to see my things & then go to the Asst. Resident's with Mr. Olmeyer & get a letter to the chief of Pulo Derawan & go to stores & order some of the supplies that I will need for the journey; have tiffin with Mr. Olmeyer & then go to Mr. Gray's, put my skins to dry & catalogue my birds, see the Bajows & Mr. O. and come back to Pasang Grahan at 7:00; after dinner write Dick and Helen & go to bed about 11:30.

Thursday, July 11, 1912.
Samarinda.
Cl. C.
I was up at 6:30, went to the P.O. & mailed a couple of letters and then went to a Chinaman photographer's & left a couple of plates there to be printed & then went to Mr. Gray's and scraped the skin of a porcupine, put my skins out to dry & have to spend much time watching them and turning them about every few minutes. This afternoon I went out on the river in a sampan with a native and shot a monitor lizard 56 inches long. I also carefully examined my alcoholics & saw that they are all numbered.

Friday, July 12, 1912.
Samarinda.
C., Cl., C.
6:25, have Mr. Olmeyer's bicycle, go to P.O. & send a half dollar to Leonard Marthen & go to photographer's with a couple of