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April 8 - Bali 
In the morning we took a drive up to Bedoegoel on Lake Brakan* 
The road wbs very steep, but well built* It is a ne~ ?r roa : <f, in 
fact still being worked on, partly with convict labor* We passed 
a prisoners 1 camp, and also a monument to the ro^dbuildrers - 
a stone statue of a Balinese man, carved by a convict artist* 
In preparation for the im visit of the Governor General to Bali, 
next week, the roads are being put into as good condition as 
possible, and fresh gravel was being spread where it would do the 
most good* All road work is done by hand, naturally, but it 
seemed strange to see men patting out the rides of the road with 
their bare feet, or busily sweeping away any roughnesses with little 
brooms. 
The rest house at Bedoegoel was being decorated for the 
G* G. *XK&ratirac The approach to it was lined withbent sapling 
arches, and these were covered with palms. P large entrance gate 
was one mass of ferns, and the posts that supported the temporary 
pavilion were covered with croton leaves* 
The Lake itself is very pretty, and exa speratingly full of 
small fish, when we did not bring a seine or net with us* They 
were just the right size for aquarium fishes, and "probably, fT says 
Bill, T1 new species 11 . 
The lake is 4500 feet high, and the air was cool and damp. 
Clouds trailed across the mountainside across from the resthouse. 
Huge p and anus trees, tree ferns, epiphytic plants of all sorts, 
made the surroundings all that one dreads of in a tropic?! 
land. 
In the evening we saw our first, and probably only, Bali- 
nese dance. It was very thrilling to see it In a small village, 
rather simply done, instead of in a tourist hotel. Two or three 
hundred natives came, and enjoyed it as much, and more Intelli- 
gently, than we did. Many of the dancers were small girls, 
not more than twelve years old, In sarongs, tight little jackets, 
and flaring head-dresses. The latter were dade of gilded^ £^otAjid>Jju 
buffalo hide, with strips of bamboo, cut to about the of 
a match stick:;, stuck into them all the way around* Each stiok D.\„ 
flowers in the girls 1 long black hair, i There were sixteen 0 
girls, and about twenty men, who took turns dancing for us. At 
the close of the dancing two men put on what was evidently/ an 
uproarious comedy act, but as most of it was dialogue, and not 
even in Malay, we were unable to grasp its meaning* The orchestra 
consisted of" eight xyllophone-like instruments, a drum, and a 
cymbal-like thing that crashed like many bells. 
The performance lasted from 6-70 to 9.70, after which we 
had dinner and went to bed. 
April 9 - 
We arose at five, and drove down the .mountain in the 
early sunrise, to board the Melchior 'i'reub bound for Macassar. 
