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[[strikethrough]] panung [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Panung]]
Panung and [[underline]] barelegged, barefooted, [[\underline]] seem about 12 or 16 years old and I would have taken them for young boys except for [[underline]] their bare back and covered breasts. [[/underline]] They have to [[underline]] rehearse every day, [[/underline]] and are told to be quite occupied at this. Some swarty maidens in half French dresses leave one of the buildings and nod to the Prince while stepping in a rather worn little victoria drawn by rather indifferent [[underline]] diminutive poneys, [[/underline]] which are the only horses here.  The prince tells me they are [[underline]] princesses. [[/underline]] I should not have [[strikethrough]] tan [[/strikethrough]] known it, if he had not told me. Then the Royal [[underline]] "white" elephants. [[/underline]] They are [[underline]] not white [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] they are [[underline]] Albinos [[/underline]] which shows on their eyes and a few of the hairs near
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their tails. They look like any elephants one sees in the Zoo or in a circus.
One of the women, I [[underline]] do not [[/underline]] know whether [[underline]] she was a princess or not, fed them a few bunches [[/underline]] of grass, all smiling and good naturedly as if we were in a zoo
[[underline]] March 24 [[/underline]] On the road before hotel pass continually, bicycles ridden by every kind of native or Frenchman. - Ricksaws, tooting small motor cars mostly French make and an occasional Ford. and a queer [[underline]] box like conveyance with side windows [[/underline]] on small [[underline]] wheels [[/underline]] and driven by [[underline]] ridiculously small poneys. [[/underline]] They are mostly patronized by natives, Chinamen or Annamites and springless, rattle along the road. After 5 P.M some more pretentious