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along, protected as we were by our umbrellas.  Before long we
came across a settlement of pickers - they were Germans -
and we recognized them as the same that had occupied the
place last year.  We learned that there were 13 families
occuping this two-roomed two-storied building.  When expressing
surprise that so many men and women should occupy such
close quarters our spokesman said "Oh, we don't take 
up much room - the men & women sleep so much closer 
together and there is plenty of room".  We learned also that
each person is charged 5¢ a week rent.  No work could
be done on the field to-day so the women were busy washing
their clothes.  Several times during the day we saw 
lines of clothes hanging out in the rain to dry.  At Marley
bridge we found Peltandra in flower.  Looking up the
stream we saw the Nymphaea odorata and thought of last
year when we went <s>up the</s> there in a boat.  Returning we
called on Mrs R. we found her out <s>in</s>near the wood-shed
splitting wood.  Think of an old woman with two strong able bodied sons splitting wood!
We asked her why she was splitting the wood & why her son did 
not do it for her. "Oh," she said "he has too much to do on
        