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to each other much in the native style of dancing. The gamelan 

 was played all through the performance, and as a finale the riders 

 were lifted out of their saddles and brought to the gallery steps 

 where they kneeled down and received the tips of the onlooking 

 guests. This all-important part of the show done, the whole van- 

 ished and left us in quiet comfort, but cooler than we had been since 

 leaving Russia. My lameness made it impossible to walk about, 



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and so the day was spent in rest and in listening to a fine perform- 

 ance on the piano by a young Dutchman. The hotel consists < f a 

 series of cottages in a garden where fuchsias, geraniums, marguer- 

 ites, heliotropes, roses, nasturtiums, sweet peas and daturas flour- 

 ish, and many of these cottages are seasonal residences oJ Dutch 

 families. In a clear morning the views must be fine, but we found 

 the place enveloped in a dry fog the latter half of the daw 



Expedition to Volcano Bromo. 



Monday, Sept. 30. At half-past four in the morning ( or night) 



we started on two ponies, mine being a capital black siallion ot 



great strength. It was a fine, full moonlight as we rode out of the 



village above the sanatorium, and we had to wake np the police 



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