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...about done for. The doctor said the view of my calm back was the only thing that kept her quiet. The boat was nice, clean and we each had a room. The night was pretty warm but we slept some and arrived early at Deli. There we found three nice Dutch suffragists to meet us. They presented us with bouquets, a hotel runner looked after our baggage and directly we were on the train riding through cocoanut and banana jungles toward Medan. We found more ladies to meet us there. We found Hotel De Boer an excellent one and at lunch we met our first rice table a celebrity of the Dutch colonies. They call their luncheon by that name, but not always do they have the thing. First they bring a soup plate then rice, and this is followed by a succession of dishes, all going...