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to stretch ourselves for a few minutes, and on our arrival at Djocja 

 the mandoer of the Hotel Toegoe was waiting with two satellites 

 to snatch our grips, and we were soon placed, grips and all, but the 

 trunk (which followed later, how we never knew, but its transport 

 cost 20 cents Dutch) , in a large auto and rushed to the hotel, which 

 we found was noisy with new buildings. Tifl&n and local explor- 

 ation filled the time until afternoon tea, when we were able to dis- 

 perse the many women who wished to sell us sarongs and table- 

 cloths, mostly made in Manchester, although we solemnly assured 

 them that we could not wear the sarongs and did not need any 

 more tablecloths. We were greatly pestered by these importunate 

 peddlers, and in hardly less degree by a man who spread out im- 

 mense mats before us which he seemed to think we needed to fur- 

 nish our apartment ; we did not recognize the need, and the arrival 

 of the tea gave an excuse for sending all away while we quenched 

 our thirst. Soon after we took a "mylord" with two horses and 

 drove about town until after dark. We went into strange quarters 

 and saw odd shops, but also houses of foreigners mixed in with these. 

 There was a cemetery {l\Iemcnto mori is alwaj^s here inscribed over 

 the graveyard gate as a name — like the carnegies in America and 

 elsewhere), and quite appropriate!}- near this were many "tomb 

 sculptors" who turned out beds of a grey lava in lengths propor- 

 tionate to the occupant of the subjacent grave or the purses of the 

 bereaved friends, and upon each end, like the top and bottom of a 

 bedstead, were fitted in sockets upright carvings of more elaborate 

 work. The houses of foreigners (if we can so call the Dutch) 

 seemed comfortable, and were generally surrounded by bare gravel 

 or earth, and a multitude of pots of considerable size on raised 

 bases, and all painted white; these filled with not very luxuriant 

 growth of palms, ferns, etc. All had the porticos .so convenient 

 for informal meals and reception of visitors. As we returned these 

 were brilliantl}- lighted with gas and mantle burners and looked 

 more attractive than by daylight. In several places we saw the 

 whole family with a goodly supply of children seated comfortably 

 in the midst of the foregarden, if the aforesaid pots could make a 

 garden. All along b}' the streets were concrete gutters with occa- 

 sional deeper and wider cisterns, from which, by removing the 

 cover, water could be obtained in buckets for watering the street — 

 this seemed the common wav. Everything was very drv, and vet 



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