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partition dividing it from the next room. This 

 airiness of build is essential in the great heat, 

 but last night we longed for a cosy fire, and an 

 English room in spite of the thermometer in the 

 verandah standing at seventy degrees at ten p.m. 

 It is wonderful how cold we feel in what in 

 England would be thought a high temperature. 

 So accustomed have we been during the last 

 three months to a thermometer ranging some- 

 were from eighty-eight to ninty-five degrees. 

 By force of contrast now, anything in the 

 seventy's seems cold and pleasant, nor do 

 we ever feel oppressed until eighty-four is 

 passed. The other day Rob was wearing a warm 

 Norfolk jacket, originally worn for shooting in 

 Wales, and he was only just comfortably warm 

 in it, with a temperature in the verandah of 

 seventy-two degrees. I am beginning to 

 wonder whether the garments are yet invented 

 in which I can face an English " nor'easter." 

 We had a serious scare last night. At 

 afternoon muster, two little girls aged 

 respectively eleven and thirteen, and a boy of 

 nine were missing. On enquiry it was found 

 that neither of them had been seen since 2.30. 

 that afternoon when the elder girl told her 

 father that they three had been ordered to 

 work in another field. Rob at once organized 

 a search party, for as there is much waste 

 ground and a good deal of jungle on outlying 



