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IN AFRICA 
neo and the Philippines. They were willing to go 
first, second or third class—any way at all to get on 
a ship. 
The Singapore hotels were crowded and we got 
the last room in the Raffles Hotel. The great and 
stately veranda, which serves the double purpose of 
At Raffles* Hotel 
a bar and an out-of-door reception-room, was usu¬ 
ally crowded. That veranda is the redeeming fea¬ 
ture of Raffles Hotel. In other respects this great 
hotel, situated at the cross-roads where East and 
West and North and South meet, is not up to what 
a good hotel should he. 
We got the last state-room on a steamer to Java, 
and to our great surprise we found the ship to be 
