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Am told [[underline]] all Cambodge [[/underline]] only counts about [[underline]] 1 [[/underline]] or [[underline]] 2 millions [[/underline]] inhabitants.  [[underline]] Market [[/underline]] and stalls are very [[underline]] dirty, smelly [[/underline]] and [[underline]] crowded [[/underline]] Usual mixture of [[underline]] Chinese vendors, [[/underline]] Annamites, open air kitchens cooking, fish, meat, dried articles and what not. Am told [[underline]] Bubonic plague, cholera, [[/underline]] and small pox are [[underline]] endemic amongst natives [[/underline]] but occur more seldom amongst [[underline]] whites. [[/underline]] The latter suffer more of [[underline]] malaria, dissentary, [[/underline]] & [[underline]] consumption. [[/underline]] At hotel good table d'hote was well served, in spacious high ceiled room. Good music of a quatroon 3 times a week. There is also [[underline]] an Opera [[/underline]] troupe in town [[underline]] plays twice [[/underline]] a week.  [[underline]] Thais [[/underline]] etc. also [[strikethrough]] comedy [[/strikethrough]] dramatic troupe:, Tosca etc Mostly [[underline]] all [[strikethrough]] pas [[/strikethrough]] men [[/underline]] at hotel are [[underline]] fonctionnaires, [[/underline]] and a few [[underline]] army men. [[/underline]] All [[underline]] uniformly [[/underline]]
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[[underline]] dressed [[/underline]] in [[underline]] white suit [[/underline]] and a white [[underline]] helmet. [[/underline]] Few officers and I see no soldiers except a few [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] annamite or cambodyen rural policemen.  [[underline]] So few [[/underline]] that I [[underline]] conclude [[/underline]] there is [[underline]] little [[/underline]] or [[underline]] no trouble [[/underline]] to keep order here as in Saigon. Went to visit [[underline]] Monsieur Baudoin, [[/underline]] "Resident Superieur", who received me very kindly and invited me for lunch or dinner to morrow at his house he called up the [[underline]] Prime-Minister of the King of Cambodge, [[/underline]] so that I could visit the palace same afternoon I went there [[underline]] Prime-Minister received [[/underline]] me [[underline]] very cordially, [[/underline]] speaks [[underline]] good French [[/underline]] for a Cambodgean and called [[underline]] one [[/underline]] of the [[underline]] younger princes [[/underline]] to be my guide thru the palace. The latter was a young man about twenty very polite dressed in the usual