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 irritating it is that all our servants will call them Europeans, and not Europeans. Our English servants all want to come up by land and to have hired horses, and I generally let the maids in this weather do so, as the steamer is obliged sometimes to come in the middle of the day. I told Captain to desire the steamer would bring up the ‘Soonamookie’—our yacht this time—as the Europeans will not let the native servants go in the cabin of the steamer, and the old kansamah and some of the old men were half baked in the small boats; so when the ‘Soonamookie’ appeared, Wright, and Jones, and Mars, and Giles all announced their gracious intention of going by water, as if they could have ‘my Lord’s boat’ to themselves; they thought it would be quite as cool as the land, so they started at four o’clock, and, what was more, declared when we arrived that it had been very pleasant.

Wednesday, 7th. We have returned to our cool seat in the Marble Hall here, and are much better. We had a great dinner in the evening. The dinners are much less formal since we have abandoned