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for the first time the so-called leaf insect alive and feeding. Mnch 

 of the Cingalese archaeology is well exhibited here (there is a 

 convenient handbook), and the natural history department was 

 a great attraction ; the marine zoology was well represented, and 

 we saw many fish that ought to be well cast and painted. All the 

 attendants, both native and foreign, did all that was needed to 

 make our short visit profitable. At this port we transhipped to the 



105. RAFFLES MUSEUM AND LIBRARY. 



"Devanha" of the same line bound to Singapore, the "Macedonia" 

 continuing her voyage to West Australia. The two vessels lay 

 some distance apart and when we went ashore we intended to re- 

 turn to the other vessel, but we hardly expected to find that in the 

 interval our bedroom steward had moved all our numerous traps 

 and had arranged them in our new quarters as he had seen that 

 we liked to have them. Late in the afternoon we were on our 

 way to the Straits, and our voyage w r as uneventful until we reached 

 Penang, where we were joined by Mr. Clifford B. Thompson, for- 

 merly of the staff of the Kamehameha Schools, now manager of a 

 rubber plantation in Perak, who brought us choice fruits — durian, 



rambutan, mangosteen and a number of others we had never be- 



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