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On Friday we went in the afternoon to see a great tobacco estate. The manager and his sister live in a charming bungalow set down in a beautiful park. The estate has about 4000 acres and about 1000 Chinese are employed. We had tea afterwords and were told that they found a snake in the house nearly every day. Everything is open in these houses. The drawing room will have three sides open. Saturday we were left to ourselves until evening when we had a suffrage meeting of 200 people. I made a [illegible] and hard work fell on the Doctor. They got sixty names for a club. My but we did sweat. Sunday we took tea with Mrs. Van Hengel, one of the splendid women and on Monday we went early by motor to Pankalan Brandau a town in the petroleum district where we had a meeting before dinner in the evening, dined at 9:30 and returned in the moonlight. On Tuesday we dined with Mrs. [Linergoot?] the other leader. Each day we breakfasted...