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the way led thru rice fields & pastures where caribou & Indian Zebu cattle were grazing.  Fields of corn, cane, and bananas were often seen on the roadside & forests covered the hillsides.  Las Banos are hot springs on the shore of a giant Lagoon of freshwater.  They are baths in tubs only & are not sulphur in nature.  Rained at noon a few minutes.  Reached Manila at 4 p.m. Sesl[[?]] & his wife then took me out to thee acquarium.  Here I saw many coral reef fish ^I^ never before saw in captivity.  They were different from those seen at Honolulu  There was also a sea snake, the poisonous yellow one banded by brown.  These snakes are