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temperature in the shade is from 8o° to 85° F. The rainfall in Singapore 
and the Malay States is frcm ninety to two hundred inches. The city 
is under excellent control, the buildings in the business portion being 
quite imposing, and the harbor, with its magnificent fortifications, most 
excellent. The visitor at once notes the strange mixture of races that 
place thei£ impress on architecture, business, and modes of life. The 
naming of the streets is an example of this. For instance, there is 
Victoria Street and Bukit Tirnah Road, together with Orchard Road 
and Teluk Blangah Road, and so on. 
After morning coffee, I took another ride through the crowded, 
barbaric, festering, native quarters, and had my eyes opened to many 
FIELD OF PARA RUBBER (“hEVEa”) • 
[In Singapore Botanic Gardens.] 
things. The European and business parts of the city are really very 
fine, and, except in the heat of the day, quite comfortable. It was not 
the rainy season, yet heavy showers came up almost every afternoon, 
and although it was cooler in the evening it was still hot and damp, 
and few of the hotel people showed much energy. Nor did they take 
any especial interest in the wants of their guests. No time tables were 
obtainable, nor was it possible to discover from the clerks anything 
about the departure of trains, the sailing of steamers, or the time when 
the postoffice wotild be open. They were not in the least discourteous, 
but simply weary and vacuous. 
