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white suit but wearing a soft broad brimmed felt hat and spoke French and took me thru the different buildings and temples of the Palace enclosure. Succession of [[underline]] Barbaric splendor, gold [[/underline]] and [[underline]] silver [[/underline]] and ornamentations predominating, and [[underline]] Budhas [[/underline]] and [[underline]] more Budhas, [[/underline]] one [[underline]] life-size [[/underline]] in [[underline]] solid gold, [[/underline]] and in one of the buildings the whole large [[underline]] floor [[/underline]] made of [[underline]] solid square silver tiles. [[/underline]] Walls decorated with wall paintings describing story of [[underline]] Budha [[/underline]] or stories of [[underline]] wars [[/underline]] etc, some very old but [[underline]] well preserved. Buildings [[/underline]] have the characteristic [[underline]] curved roof- [[/underline]] free ends, [[underline]] glistening with gilt [[/underline]] in the sunshine, amidst other buildings terminating in sharp high conical structures with glistening points. In all these
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buildings, [[underline]] very valuable [[/underline]] articles [[underline]] were left exposed [[/underline]] or [[underline]] in unprotected frail, thin [[/underline]] glass cases only locked with strips of paper bearing the signature of the official who put them on Royal treasures, royal crowns and jewelry all thus exposed [[strikethrough]] in poorly [[/strikethrough]] in buildings with [[underline]] clumsy wooden [[/underline]] doors and [[underline]] ditto locks [[/underline]] and [[underline]] only guarded by the attendants bare footed, half naked [[/underline]] and [[underline]] bareheaded, [[/underline]] who [[underline]] squat [[/underline]] on the floor and [[underline]] very few [[/underline]] in number.  [[underline]] Good natured, casual [[/underline]] in their ways, simple and ready to enter into conversation with the young prince. [[strikethrough]] I notice [[/strikethrough]] The [[underline]] Prince [[/underline]] pointed me out some of [[underline]] the dancing girls of the King [[/underline]] (Sisowalh II?) who traversed the court from one building to another. They look serious and demure, short hair, and