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material practically.  The Institution or its collections rather are quite decayed.  New material is much needed here.  The only really modern feature of the place is the library.

(3)  A soldier's dance in the Town Hall, near Govt. House occupied us in the evening.  The soldiers were there in kaki & their ladies were chiefly Eurasians, very few European girls being in evidence.  Some Scotch pipers rent the air with their weird bagpipes during one of the dance intervals.  Fans thruout the building cooled the dancers slightly but those who danced were