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the specimens to America by freight. Then we go 
to Tandjong Priok and take the steamer to Singapore, 
transhipping to Saigon and Hong Kong. We shall 
remain only one night in Singapore, happily, for it is 
neither beautiful nor cool. 
It has just occurred to me that you might ask 
Mr. Righter to telephone to the Cambridge branch of 
the Massachusetts Storage Warehouse Company (the 
building is on Massachusetts avenue in Cambridge, 
near the railroad tracks) ; he knows, I think, and ask 
him if more money is needed for my storeroom rent. 
I have an idea that my term runs out on May Ist. 
We shall not remain at all long in China and then 
perhaps go to Manila, if we ean get connections from 
here to Japan conveniently, and then home via Hono- 
lulu. We really feel now as if the hardest part of the 
business were over. To leave the tropics, where we 
have been since October 26th, will be weleome for 
Rosamond, who does not like the heat, although it 
seems to agree with her very well. I was never better 
in my life. 
The Dutchmen come out here and officials are re- 
quired to remain ten years before they can get away ; 
the two Englishmen whom we traveled with were in 
the government of India and they had been home 
nearly a third of their time and often for compara- 
tively short trips. It is needless to say that the Dutch 
system produces men far more efficient in the way of 
learning native manners, customs and languages. In: 
every respect I consider Java to be the model colony 
in the world. When the Dutch took it there were six 
million people here; now there are thirty-eight mil- 
lion on an island six hundred miles long and from 
