(3) Very few mosquitoes, practice more mere about during the night. The morning broke with a soft misty rain falling. The entire day we travelled down the broad valley thru *the rice fields, sometimes near the river but often as much, several miles away the valley being about 5 miles broad. The river is shallow & runs then a sandy bed not rippled without rapids or boulders. Many dhows were out carrying loads to market, the women have very neat appearance, the only legs always clean & unpainted in this sort country of set, short skirt to the knees