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Sat.
Oct. 23
It was raining when I got up
but nothing daunting we fixed
for it and took the 8.47 train
cut to Victoria Barracks. An English-
man asked of the chaplain "who
the little chap was" meaning Mrs.
Coleman who was in her overall
and muddy boots. We walked up
through the golf course, collected
some sun-dew and a new
form of Blechnum in a swamp.
Walked through a rubber plantation
and then lunch after a hill-side
where we found two localities
for the pitcher plants, Nepenthes
gracilis, the thing we seek out
for; collected many other new
and interesting things. By chance
we came by Mr. Roberts' house
but could not stop on account
of the trains. Put in plants and
changed drivers and talked
over things botanical. Wrote a
lot of postals. The chaplain got
up a press of mine by mistake,
I wrote up my diaries and
and I got to bed at about 11.30