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long in this climate.

Arrive at Tenggarung about nine o'clock P.M. and tie up to the Sultan's landing.

April 22, 1914.
Tenggarung and Samarinda.

Arise just at daybreak and about eight o'clock start for Samarinda aboard the Mahakam and arrive there about 10:30. As soon as we landed I called on Mr. Spaan (Assistant Resident) and then went to Mr. Olmeyer's.

Have dinner and spend the evening with Mr. Gray. During the afternoon do some errands.

April 23, 1914.
Samarinda.

Spend most of the day with Mr. Olmeyer at his home. Learn that at Seliman & Sungai Meriam there are many cases of smallpox; at Seliman an American had died of it and two or three more Europeans are sick there.

April 24, 1914.

Samarinda and Tenggarung.

Leave Sam[[a - replaces cancelled typed r]]rinda about 8:30 A.M. in a small steam launch "Moelia" and about three hours later reach Tenggarung.

Open the box of traps which the Museum sent me and find that there are three kinds of traps, none of which I have seen before, but they look good and I am anxious to set them and also try the liquid trail scents and trap baits.

Call on Mr. and Mrs. Robinson; my boat is tied up to the logs behind his saw mill.

Meet Radin Bamban Somoro and go for a walk about the kampong with him.

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