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cameras, guns, bags, boxes, trunks, umbrellas, ete. 
Our boat to Singapore is just a few hundred feet 
away from this hotel and it looks very big and nice. 
Tell mother that we have not yet had time to send 
the photographs which we told her we were sending, 
but the first chance I get she shall have them. The 
eoolies have just come for our trunks; they carry 
them on their heads. We have caught many lizards 
in our room. We have seen a great many snakes 
and the other day Tom caught another python. Much 
love to every one from both of us, 
Most affectionately, 
Rosamond. 
Tell mother the Curtises of Boston are here. 
Adelphia Hotel. 
Singapore, January 8, 1907. 
Dear Mother: 
We arrived here from Rangoon after a splendid 
five days trip. Sunday we had all day in Penang, 
a most beautiful place, having really the finest tro- 
pical scenery we have seen so far. The trees were 
literally covered with orchids. The temperature was 
trying, the average, night and day (in the shade, of 
course), being ninety, and such wet heat too. This, 
I suppose, is why everything does so well. I sent 
you several postal cards of the Botanical Gardens, 
but they do not begin to show the true coloring. We 
spent a whole day in these gardens, Tom collecting 
and I enjoying the beautiful flowers. They would 
set you almost wild; they are so lovely. Butterflies 
by the thousands were fllitering everywhere. We 
caught a great many. The gardens are four and a 
