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House and later called on the Assistant Resident and the Controleur and went to the Post Office but was disappointed to find no mail.

The Controleur will help me to get men though they are not as plentiful as I was led to believe by H. Mohamat Arsat and Olmeyer.

Donggala is a fine kampong and more spread about than the villages in Borneo which are as a rule along the edge of the water. The streets are well made with a rock foundation and ditches on either side, also made of stones and cement.

When one first comes ashore, the thing most impressive is difference in the features, etc. of the natives. These Buginese are much darker than the Bornean natives and more sinewy, more like Bajans but with sharper features. The "sarong" is much more used here than in Borneo and although the men for the most part wear short trousers they also wear a sarong hung obliquely over the shoulder to the hip.

The houses of the natives are large and spacious ones set up on high posts with some fancy carved ornament, as a rule, at the end of either gable. Nepa leaves are used for thatching the roofs and in many cases for the sides but some of the houses have the sides made of bamboos split and woven and there are also a few houses made of corrugated galvanized iron. The shops of the Chinese and Arabs are mostly of boards. There are many Arabs here. 

There is no fresh water near the shore and I had to send more than half a mile for water.

July 14, 1914.
Donggala to Sirendja.

The custom officer, acting Harbor Master, delayed me so that I was unable to start until nearly two o'clock this afternoon.

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