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a chignon [[underline]] just as their women. [[/underline]] Yesterday noticed from the open door of my room a woman in a nearby yard, doing up her hair, and it [[underline]] was so long that when combed out it trailed on the floor. [[/underline]] No wonder [[underline]] China was and still is the great supplier of human hair. [[/underline]]  On the sign above the shop of a Chetty - Money changer and money lender I notice the following family name.  K.M. Mougamadonsoultane
[[underline]] March 21. [[/underline]] Went into an Annamite shop and bought about [[underline]] 300 piastres [[/underline]] worth of [[underline]] presents. [[/underline]] Their Annamite things look more tasteful than those heavy Chinese articles.
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Shop was very neat, one [[underline]] well mannered polite boy [[/underline]] who spoke French was the only one, with whom I could speak. I saw a small painting of an old man.  He [[underline]] tells me he was his grand-father a Mandarin. [[/underline]] Articles fill [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] 2 wooden cases Trouble began when I had to have them shipped They had no idea how to ship to New York.
Finally found an [[underline]] Annamite shipping office, [[/underline]] his name is Vincent. He will forward to [[underline]] Singapore [[/underline]] I to pay, freight and insurance until there, and his correspondent will forward thence [[underline]] to New York. [[/underline]] Freight and Insurance
[[left margin]] [[underline]] Note: [[/underline]] Most of these articles are now in my Florida home 1939 [[/left margin]]