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and hoary pests who claim and get first place below deck. I know, for I cam over here in her- and I slept both nights on deck- of course moonlight you know!! This trip there will  be no moon and of course, rain! But this and ^[[the]] missing mail is the fault of man-  There is much in Java that's disappointing but it's all owing to the Dutch! Its a good thing they are so slow and stupid or in their dull  headstrong way they might have ruined the whole place. Of course, not all Dutchmen are bad, but many of those here are bad enough. The natives are charming, the landscape the most beautiful I have ever seen, the ground the most fertile, the gardens most fascinating, the homes the simplest, the people, excepting foreigners, the happiest and the temple ruins- well, they must be classed with the

Transcription Notes:
Freer says how he really feels about the Dutch