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...bought our tickets as we concluded we could not stand the heat. We got an order for more tickets to be bought of Cooks and in this way we got our money back. We had to stay in during the middle of the day, but we had the greatest fiasco of our whole trip the first morning after our arrival. We went by carriage to a timber yard where we expected to see elephants at work. They told us we must walk and we did walk and walk until my blood boiled. We were rewarded by seeing one little elephant, and it took me two days to recover from the jaunt. Every evening we took a drive and at least four times we went to the Royal Lakes one of the most beautiful drives I have ever seen. It was moderately cool there in the early...