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new rooms, in one of which we found all the traps we had left neatly 

 arranged ; we had our former room boy and he was evidently glad 

 to see us. A fine shower bath and dinner, when we had a call 

 from the manager to ask how my lameness was, and we also found 

 that Dr. E. C. Waterhouse of Honolulu was in the hotel, just 

 arrived. This was good news, although we did not see him until 

 next morning. We found that our steamer, the Montoro, was at 

 Semarang and would probably be here tomorrow, and we should be 

 telephoned when the launch would go out. 



140. A JAVAN MASSAGE (l.OMILOMI ). 



Thursday, Oct. 3. The Montoro arrived in the morning and 

 we were warned to be on board before 6 p.m., as the boat would 

 probabl}- sail at 2 a.m. So we drove about town in search of a 

 chair and other small matters, also collected our photographs at 

 Kurkdjian's, had our last tiffin, paid our bill, bade good-bye to 

 Dr. Waterhouse, and about four o'clock loaded our luggage into 

 one carriage, ourselves into another and drove the long way to the 

 harbor where we arrived in an hour, secured a sampan and started 

 down the channel for the steamer. Then our troubles began, for 

 the rowing with the small round-bladed oars was slow, and when 

 at last we could put up the sail the wind had freshened and we 

 laid over so well that considerable water came aboard and we were 



