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Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ally in a central building with the guestsquarters all around, or on two or three sidesof it, with garden plots between. Flowers,palms, flowering trees, flowering shrubs, andflowering vines are growing around in abund-ance. Many of them in imitation of the pri-vate residences, have menageries attached,in the cages of which they keep a numberof the wild beasts of the island and some ofthe beautiful wild birds. The guests roomsare always supplied with a liberal number ofclimbing lizards or chameleons, large ants,monster roaches, and occasionally snakes.The chameleons are never absent, so that asmany as six or eight can always be dependedupon as being fellow-lodgers in the sameroom, and immediately over the beds. Tree 100 frogs kept up an incessant croaking duringmost of the night. All of the beds seem to have been con-structed for the purpose of accommodating,at one time,all the members of a large family.Monster bolsters are supplied that it waslong before we learned the use of. Finally
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Side-view of one of the Terraces on the Ancient Templeof Boro-Boldoer. we were told that they were intended to beplaced between the sleepers in order to keepthem cool. Every bed is canopied withmosquito netting, and before retiring a nativeservant comes with a feather duster, andsweeps out the mosquitoes that have gainedentrance during the day. One species ofmosquito there has no sing, but possesses 101 a very insidious sting. The first warningits victim gets is from the insertion of thelatter. Every bedroom has a bath-room attached,but it contains no bath-tub. The landlordhas one or two of these tubs in reserve forsuch barbarian guests as insist on the usingof so antiquated an article. The usual ar-ticles used in bathing are a large round ves-sel rilled with water and a ladle. The batherladles himself all over with the water andallows it to flow off upon the cement floor ofhis bath-room. Everybody is expected to dothis kind of bathing several times each day.As no one dresses till lun

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