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very economical and satisfactory way of packing them. 
The dried insects have been packed in earbolated 
sawdust and duly poisoned. In the afternoons, when 
everything and everybody is asleep, we rested too and 
then, unless it continued to rain, went for a short 
walk. Dinner followed and then bed. We do not feel 
that we have wasted any time at all, for Rosamond 
and Reina have between them made a dress, and shirt 
waists and pajamas, ete., without number. Besides 
this, we all needed a rest after several months of 
pretty strenuous work. We left Buitenzorg at 6.04 
and arrived here at 12.21, a beautiful ride through the 
mountains. This is a very pretty kind of health re- 
sort with a thriving native and Chinese population. 
It is very pleasant and cool; I do not think it was over 
seventy-eight degrees to-day. It was ninety every day 
before we left Buitenzorg, but worse in Batavia. We 
found that there was an unprecedented rush of tour- 
ists to Japan, so we had to take passage by the French 
ships and go to Hong Kong via Saigon; this is a very 
beautiful place and we shall no doubt enjoy a few days 
here. We had tickets to Hong Kong by the Penins- 
ular & Oriental, but will have to get this refunded by 
Cook (which they agree to do at the London office. I 
shall send the slips to Mr. Logan and ask him to send 
the returns to 96 Franklin street). Then I shall ask 
you to eredit my expense account with this amount. 
My zoological work here, while extensive, has not been 
very costly, as I pay the natives a third of a cent of 
American money per specimen and perhaps twenty 
cents American money for great rarities. I secured 
a live scaly anteater for forty cents from some hill 
men; a peculiar badger (very few skins in the collec- 
