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fitted up in modern style. How much do even these coloured people owe to L Pasteur & Lister the genius of the one & the ability of the other have done more for mankind that even did the great sacrifice of Leazaar. Next the eye hospital. On through roads & streets flanked with cocoanut palms in full bearing, cannas of every shade of blooming colour, other & varied tropical foliage, the mean shops limiting many, while the bungalows of the rich lay back in a wealth of foliage. Sorrowful to look upon, pleasant to look at, such as the East I have read about adown my life time. The Padre said after his forty years of experience, "The East is East & the West is West, and never the two can blend". So said Kipling.

7-30 p.m. waiting for dinner, which will be partaken of sitting at a table with Professor Watson of Adelaide & Chaplain Nye from Melbourne.

Thus endeth this chapter.

Goodbye. Regards to M. M. Joseph & her people. To you much love & heaps of kisses from

Your lvg & afnn Faree
John B. Nash

Sister M. Hyacinth.
West Maitland
N. S. Wales

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