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through his books and found that the box had been here a long time. They claimed the address to be illegible.

May 20 to July 5, 1914.
Samarinda.

After having shipped my specimens I had the "Bintang Kumala" pulled out on Gray's slip and dried her out for about ten days and then began to repair her. On account of having been so long in the water, worms had gotten into her bottom and to destroy them it was necessary to keep a smouldering fire under her for two days.

Pack all my outfit into boxes and put the entire under Olmeyer's house in which I am staying.

After being unable to get a crew of Soloks or Bajans from Beraoe I hunted about here and finally found a Buggis who claimed he had long been captain of a schooner and could sail the Buntang Kumala to Donggala so I arranged with him to get two men to rig the prahn and sail her to Donggala. There was no way to find out for sure that these three men were sailors except to judge so because they knew how to rig the boat so I was somewhat disappointed when on July 25th, I tried out the boat in the river and had much trouble; however, the following day we made a start. There was a good breeze on the river and before we had gotten two miles down the river it was clear to see that I had no sailors; they finally ran the boat ashore. I returned to Samarinda, could get no natives who could sail so finally traded in the "Bintang Kumala" and took over the schooner "Alnoer" from a Bugis and will go with him to Donggala and there hunt for a crew to sail the "Alnoer."

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