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[[underline]] 90°F but it feels hotter [[/underline]] on account of [[underline]] humidity [[/underline]] and lack of breeze.  Afternoon good breeze brings relief. I see no insects and no mosquitoes except [[underline]] ants. [[/underline]] This is the dry and hottest season. [[underline]] Best time is January [[/underline]] February, as in Southern India Evening [[underline]] Ricksaw [[/underline]] took me thru streets. [[underline]] Chinese quarter [[/underline]] same Chinese shops same [[underline]] crowded, same smells [[/underline]] but streets larger and very much better than in Canton or in Shanghai. Stepped in an Annamite Theatre. Drama going on. Only few people because a circus is competing nearby. [[underline]] An Annamite [[/underline]] who speaks French [[underline]] asks me to sit near him and explains the play. [[/underline]] Annamite music = xylophone
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and box like flat string instruments, ^[[half clad]] children of actors playing in wings of the stage or running about in front.  [[left margin]] "Subject" [[/left margin]] "Trouble between a king and his wife because latter finds he has a paramour ^[[a paramour]] and Kings father gives him a lecture etc. All dressed in multicolored, silk embroidered costumes, gilded and glittering; Language [[underline]] falsetto, [[/underline]] falsetto singing etc. similar to Chinese Theatre but not so noisy.
March. 19. Went to visit [[underline]] Mr. Kirkby [[/underline]] manager of [[underline]] Standard Oil Co [[/underline]] who gives me much practical information. Visit to American Consul Mr. Cookingham, a young man recently arrived here from Algiers, [[strikethrough]] I w [[/strikethrough]] nicely housed