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steamer with good saloon & smoking room forward.  There was draft beer from Australia on board & many other comforts.  At 5 P.M. I went with Covington for a rickshaw ride to the Botanic Gardens, which are about 2 miles out of town.  The gardens are well arranged with trees, shrub & lawns and all the plants are labelled with their scientific names but no English, native or family names appear.  One of the odd plants was a vermillion red stemmed palm of small size.  There were large crimson flowered cannas & colias new to me.  Many ^[[European]] children with their Chinese nurses & mothers were playing about