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or the sides of stage where friends of actors or family seem to be welcome and smoke cigarettes and stand about looking on. A few minutes of the play seems enough. [[strikethrough]] Then went [[/strikethrough]] and the play went on monotonously Then went to a [[underlined]] Chinese Theate. Dirty smell of urine [[/underlined]] etc. etc. pervades whole place. Ear splitting music (!) going on by 6 players striking full strength on 6 enormous gongs while 2 shrill trumpets and many smaller ones are blowing an [[underlined]] infernal noise. [[/underlined]] Dozen of [[strikethrough]] Chines [[/strikethrough]] actors waving flags, and proper pikes and booted with heavy [[underlined]] chinese warboots [[/underlined]] and covered with embroidered coats, overcoats and leather curasses, and long beards and mustaches [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] are
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rushing forward and backward and then all around the stage as playing "follow the leader" while shrieking in falsetto tones the part they have to say. Little chinese children playing about merrily on stage and among the seats and the [[underlined]] infernal noise and stench promptly driving us away. What a dirty lot those chinese are. [[/underlined]] I felt deaf and had to swallow some fresh air after I came out.
[[underlined]] April 11. [[/underlined]] To morrow I am leaving by [[underlined]] train [[/underlined]] for [[underlined]] Penang. [[/underlined]] While I am packing [[underlined]] Robskob [[/underlined]] the Norwegian who is to take the same train, [[underlined]] tells me [[/underlined]] the [[underlined]] heavy storm of a couple of days ago has wasted away [[/underlined]] the [[strikethrough]] bridge [[/strikethrough]] R.R. [[underlined]] Bridge [[/underlined]]