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She is rather plump, and wears her hair twisted up tightly on the top 
of her head. She had diamond ear-rings, gold, ornaments in her heir, 
and gold anilets. Her stockingless feet .ere encased in g£jP£»- 
She was very smiling and grscious,in spite of knowing noJSnglisfc 
put us st esse with the poise of the accomplished hostess. 
ThP lunch was made up of various Malay dishes. First we had 
fish, Sghi^sSasone? an/cooked in palm leaves much the same style 
at our Mexican tamales. Then we had a meat dish called sati, - 
°smaIi r ptece C s°Sf iSmb and of chicken liver broiled on skewers, accom- 
panied by a finely ground rice ana a hot sauce. Dessert was Euro 
pean - ice cream. We had champagne with lunch and liquers after- 
ward. 
In the evening we had dinner with Mr. Chasen at his home. He 
is a bachelor, and keeps a large establishment - ^ig, airy rooms, 
cool screened verandahs. A Mrs. Capeau (?) and an enormous Dutch 
archeologist, Stein Capenfels (?) were the other guests. After 
dinner we discussed the possibilities of getting or ^f-?^ n f ™* 
of Borneo, as we sipped our whisky sodas. A large bat ^^leisure- 
ly through the rooms, but no one noticed. The little geckos were 
all over the ceilings, and occasionally gave their chuckle of _ 
pleasure over some succulent insect, but nobody noticed tnem either. 
As we drove back to the hotel, I tried to count the smells 
of Singapore: Incense, fried fish, wood smoke, the oil on tne 
syce'fhair, roasting peanuts, the scent of flowers the sm oke of 
firecrackers which the Chinese are always putting off, and occasion- 
al unsanitary whiffs better not analysed. 
We were sorrv to leave this fascinating city, with its mixture 
of races, its crowded harbor, and the waterways where so many 
people live their lives in sampans; traffic Pjlicemen with rattan 
boards on their back for stop and go signs; sikhs and tamils from 
India directing the traffic of every imaginable Asiatic people, 
zebu carts rubbing axles with the latest make of motor car, orchids 
a customary decoration on the table. 
