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jolly, like the Hill people of India. The women 
smoke great cigars, fourteen inches long and as big 
around as--well, almost as your wrist; they look like 
policemen’s clubs. JI have not dared to try one as 
yet. I think we shail return from Bhamo to Katha 
by express steamer and then take the train to a place 
ealled Thaybeitkyin, where we intend to spend a night 
and where I want to try the shooting. We shall go 
straight from here to Rangoon and on the 27th take 
a boat for Singapore and from there straight over to 
Java. I wrote to Warren and Grandmother a day or 
so ago and I have forgotten how much of this I wrote. 
I did not get the tickets for the boat trip in London 
and this, with the very costly hotels, will make our 
trip here very expensive. 
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Rangoon was warm but rather dry. It is dry here 
and quite cool when the sun goes down, but very hot 
in the sun. I hope you follow our travels on a map. 
I wish you would get a big one, rolled up, on which 
we can mark the course of our wanderings to keep 
for ourselves. You will enjoy our photographs. We 
have also bought quite a lot of interiors, ete., and 
places which we saw when the light was bad or when 
we were doubtful as to our results. 
Love to you, every one, from 
Tom. 
Mandalay, December 28, 1906. 
Dear Mrs. Barbour : 
We have just arrived from Bhamo after twelve 
of the most delightful days spent on a boat since we 
left America. We took a cargo steamer from here to 
