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IN AFRICA 



neo and the Philippines. They were willing to go 

 first, second or third class any way at all to get on 

 a ship. 



The Singapore hotels were crowded and we got 

 the last room in the Raffles Hotel. The great and 

 stately veranda, which serves the double purpose of 



At Raffles' Hotel 



a bar and an out-of-door reception-room, was usu- 

 ally crowded. That veranda is the redeeming fea- 

 ture of Raffles Hotel. In other respects this great 

 hotel, situated at the cross-roads where East and 

 West and North and South meet, is not up to what 

 a good hotel should be. 



We got the last state-room on a steamer to Java, 

 and to our great surprise we found the ship to be 



