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procession. Nothing [[underline]] noisy [[/underline]] or [[underline]] dirty [[/underline]] as in Canton everything bright and cheerful and the streets [[underline]] lined [[/underline]] with tropical vegetation. Vander Falck tells me [[underline]] life [[/underline]] here is [[underline]] much less expensive than in Holland [[/underline]]
This morning I visited the Museum situated near the Koningsplein. The latter is a wide green field left bare and surrounded [[underline]] with [[/underline]] pretty residences. The situation makes them look as if they were in the country instead of in town. [[underline]] Museum well [[/underline]] kept. a large room filled with models of [[underline]] houses [[/underline]] of [[underline]] all the Islands of the Dutch Indies. [[/underline]] Also numerous specimens of house - hold articles, instruments, weapons, crafts and 
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trades, clothing etc. of these Islands. One room called the [[underline]] Schatkamer [[/underline]] contains an unusually rich collection of [[underline]] articles [[/underline]] in [[underline]] silver, gold [[/underline]] and [[underline]] gems [[/underline]] either [[underline]] weapons, krisses, ornaments, crowns [[/underline]] etc which [[underline]] belonged [[/underline]] to the conquered [[underline]] sultans [[/underline]] of the several [[underline]] kingdoms [[/underline]] now ruled by the Dutch. Am told most of all this was taken during the wars with the native rulers.
[[underline]] April 23 [[/underline]] Left at 9 AM for [[strikethrough]] Brandoeng [[/strikethrough]] and arrived [[strikethrough]] there about 1 P.M. [[/strikethrough]] about 11 AM at [[underline]] Buitenzoig. [[underline]] At first road was rather mediocre and dusty and many carts and pedestrians also many motor cars and motor buses. Mostly all motor cars are American

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A kris is a Javanese weapon