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(the girls) weighed about eighty pounds, and could carry double their 
weight if necessary. In the fields a girl can pick about 480 bushes 
a day* Most of ti:e Sumatra tea goes to London, where it is blended 
with Ceylon or other tea. By itself it is rather strong, and 
inclined to be bitter unless brewed very carefully, but it gives 
good body to lighter t ea s • 
Camp life is full of amusement. Two little Chinese acro- 
bats put on a show for us one morning, one of them being a good 
sleight-of-hand boy. The personnel of the Circus at the Pasar 
Malam visited us, and Bill had a grand time talking show business 
with them. Horas brought us a live centipede in a tin box, and 
had carefully put in a supply of rice for the critter to eat. We 
ordered toilet paper from the grocery store and got cayenne pepper. 
Barbara locks her door at night for fear of wandering pythons, and 
buys Cross and Blackwell Finest Refined British Table Salt to 
preserve her specimens. Miss Surbeck invited a boy friend to the 
hotel in honor of Bill f s birthday, and the Coenraads feel hurt 
because they are not invited to the party, whi ch we did not hear 
about until Mrs. C. asked us if we had a party at the hotel. 
The Monday Night Club sent us a Ringling poster, with 
letters from all of them written on the back of it. Bill f s birthday 
cake, instead of "Happy Birthday" said "Horas" in pink icing. Such 
little things as these keep us all happy, and give us something to 
talk about. We have not seen an American paper since January, 
and can f t get much out of the occasional Dutch papers that come 
our way. Mrs- Marsh was here the other day, and when we asked her 
what was happening at home, the only news she could think of was 
that Jean Harlow was dead. 
I discard a pair of silk stockings, and find that the house 
boy is using them for dish cloths. 
July 7 - 
Barbara, Bill and I started off fairly early in the morning 
for Brastagi, and reached there in time for lunch. We went up 
especially to see Harold Coolidge, and found him flat on his back in 
bed, having heart trouble as an aftermath of blood poisoning and 
fever, and very low in his mind having had to abandon his expedition 
in New Guinea. 
The ride up to Brastagi was lovely, but shortly after lunch, 
which we ate with the Davises and Mrs. Coolidge, rain began to fall, 
and the afternoon was cold and dismal. Even Sabayk was hidden from 
view, and dense clouds closed over the view of the rolling sulphur 
mists that we had seen when we were here before. 
We slept most of the fternoon, had tea with the Coolidges, 
and dinner with the Davises and Mrs. Coolidge. We heard tonight for 
the first time that Amelia Ear hart was missing on her round-the- 
world flight • ■ Wf" ? ^ * : 4^& ; -^ ^%^i\4^^^^^^M 
July 8 - 
Bill had a bad chill in the night, and felt rotten this 
morning. We started home about nine o* clock, having the Davis boy 
