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crowded, with rickshas [rickshaws] and these were filled with
Chinese. Husbands and wives with children: fathers with
children, mothers with children, women together and men
together, for these rickshas [rickshaws] [illegible]. Each one carried an
offering. Form must hung great strings of paper forms
which I believe are prayers. These were folded into squares,
triangles, boats &c. Then there were baskets of fruits, vegetables,
rice, prayer sticks and I counted six coasted [illegible] The
[Imagination?] could not picture the variety of these
offerings. We must have met or travelled in the pro-
-cession with at least one thousand of these [rickshaws?]
We saw something of the native town, the best streets
of the Europeans and got back to the boat just in
time—noon Postals 1, 2, 3, 4. Meanwhile, the Singapore passengers
had come on, and the ship was crowded from [stern?]
to stern. That night, Friday, at about one o'clock we
crossed the Equator. It was a comfortable night
and the whole journey was comfortable and une-
-ventful [uneventful]. There was a fair breeze each day and on
deck it was not very hot. We arrived off Batavia
or rather [Jandiong?] [Priok?] the port of [Batavia?]
about 7:30. The Dr. was ready at 6 and I at 7.
But we did not come alongside the key (quay)
until 8:30. Meanwhile a group of four ladies