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Transcription
The lecture room was
completely filled by men
+ women of European
stocks who looked much
like our educated class at
home.
Willem [illegible] of the tribe
Miaos (pronounced Meow like
the noise of a cat) who wear
short kilt in the 0. The husband
on the birth of a child retired
to bed with the infant there
for it for the 12 years days
received the congratulations
of his friends, the wife being
quite lost sight of.