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...provided for a few people. It was comfortable but here there were no electric fans. So, through the matron I engaged a punkah puller. A punkah is a thing like this hung from the ceiling. The bottom is a ruffler. A rope goes thro' a hole in the wall and a coolie sits outside and pulls it wagging the fan over the bed or table or what not. Wages have gone up now so I had to pay 24 cts to get a puller from 9 pm to 8 am. It used to be 7 cts. I don't know what is to become of us aristocrats if wages continue to come up in this fashion.