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to the more crowded inlet where the office of the Kuling Estate was. We had a small argument on the sampan. What with the seaman's strike and other irregularities the wharf coolies who handle the baggage to and from the boats had got in the habit of charging and getting twenty cents per piece, whereas five cents is a normally generous amount. Not only did they demand it, but by intimidating private coolies, snatching baggage out of the owners' hands, and general rowing they managed to enforce their demands. So a wharf coolie came into our stateroom and we refused to allow him to touch the bags and told the sampan man we would have nothing to do with this. He managed to get hold of the typewriter long enough to pass it from the ship to the sampan, simpling reaching it down five feet; then he boarded the small boat and soon declared that he would have twenty cents per piece, eighty cents in all. We declined to pay it, and the boat moved over to the shore where he wanted to get off. He vowed we would wait until we paid him, and Dorothy assured him that we would we would wait as long as necessary. Finally he left without his money, making the sampan man promise to bring it him when we should have settled our account at the office of the Estate. We finally had to add twenty cents to the sampan bill, but considered that we had won quite a victory after we heard the stories of others. When we left the Estate office to take a motor across the plains to the foot of the hills we were not quite so successful. 

We had printed statement of the Estate giving the charges for cars and saying that a car would go for two full fares. The motor car company said they had nothing to do with the Estate and that they would not start for less than three fares. Among other things in the course of arguments they told Dorothy that this was the year 1926 and that 1925 regulations did not hold, and that we could wait for more passengers if we desired, which might be tomorrow or some other day. We paid their charges, though a bit angrily, and so rode across the plain. By carrying our own baggage we managed to forestall additional robbery. Of course when from 2000 to 3000 foreigners and wealthy Chinese go up to the resort in the hills during the summer they are dependent on the coolies and Chinese con-