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there a [[underline]] soldier brings me a letter [[/underline]] from Dr. Cognacy, [[underline]] Gouverneur-General of Indo-China, offering me his motor car to visit interesting parts of the town [[/underline]] and neighborhood etc.
[[underline]] March 20. [[/underline]] I notice that all these [[underline]] Annamite waiters, [[/underline]] in clean white suits are all [[underline]] barefooted. [[/underline]] This is much [[underline]] more sensible than [[/underline]] to compel them to wear, hot clumsy ill fitting [[underline]] shoes. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Blaquieres [[/underline]] has laid out a program for me including hotels, automobiles, driver etc. which will last until my departure from [[underline]] Kep [[/underline]] to [[underline]] Siam [[/underline]] and which costs me [[underline]] 1100 piastres [[/underline]] a rather steep sum of money but I imagine that
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it is on account of the private rental of a motor car.  
Went to visit the [[underline]] Gouverneur General [[/underline]] in his palace Warmly received, told him I had already hired a motor car, but thanked him. He offered me to arrange a [[underline]] tiger hunt [[/underline]] for me at Dalat if I could stay a few days longer so as to issue ^[[issue]] the [[underline]] necessary orders [[/underline]] for the [[underline]] preparations [[/underline]] to provide me with the necessary men and outfit Told him at present was more interested in mosquito-killing than in tigers.
The [[underline]] Annamite [[/underline]] in their shops houses and quarters and streets are [[underline]] decidedly less crowded [[/underline]] and more reserved