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180 amongst natives. See my photos - passing guard in the [[underline]] Kraton, [[/underline]] lances etc 2/ Also [[underline]] sitting guards. [[/underline]] 3/ [[underline]] Horse [[/underline]] and [[underline]] 2 guards [[/underlined]] standing on both sides. 4/ Officials wearing [[underline]] Kris. [[/underline]] [[left margin]] Newspaper [[/left margin]] This evening a reporter of the "Soerabaya Handelsblad" [[underline]] (Van Hulten) [[/underline]] who looks like a [[underline]] half Chinaman [[/underline]] came to [[underline]] interview me [[/underline]] about an article which had appeared in the "Lacomatief" (published in Pendong) and which recited [[underline]] how de Klerk had overcharged me, [[/underline]] but the amount was put at $2080 instead of $1080. Afterwards he published a long article correcting the above and cleverly arranged to take the sting out of the former article and trying to [[underline]] white-wash [[/underline]] the [[strikethrough]] Star [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] White Star Tou [[/underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 181 [[underline]] rist Company [[/underline]] Afterwards went to a native theatre in a hut built exclusively of bamboo. 70' x 40' bamboo posts, bamboo mats bamboo roof, covered with palm leaves, and walls made of woven bamboo [[strikethrough]] poles [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Illumination [[/underline]] was furnished by some [[underline]] Welsbach lights, [[/underline]] made by putting a small torch of gasoline [[underline]] under air pressure [[/underline]] furnished [[underline]] by a tire pump. [[/underline]] Gasoline is conveyed to different lamps by means of a [[underline]] hollow flexible copper wire, [[/underline]] a horizontal pipe above lamp heats gasoline into gas. a [[underline]] very bright light easy to instal and which [[/underline]] I saw in [[underline]] several small [[/underline]] hotels. I was the only white spectator, all others were [[underline]] natives, quiet, patient [[/underline]]