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To make them happy, and I have devoted
many of them for real or fancied ills.
Could I have really been able to bed,
P. D's little daughter that had a bad case of
- typhoid - whose zine treatment speedily
cured. And my spirit has since never-
fully affected by bruises & gunning
for several attacks of fever. It supposes
they are grateful, also we can never tell.
They accept us all without a
word of thanks other than 'sai', but their cordial acceptance of us
as members of the community - is
probably their way of expressing
thanks.
When the last wrestling match had
ended the sports were over. At all things
raised its flag, leading a procession
of all the male population of the valley
who rode in a circle about the seated
Tawas, giving faster & faster with their
barns and air canal galleys. Then all
adjourned to the front of Mt. by the
rebent men of the valley where a feast
had been prepared.
I was invited to attend but knowing
from experience of Oriental feasts
that the food would be ineatable &
the drink worse, I begged to be excused
and started home. But before left the old