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TATRIATA.

D. ITALY

117

I was riding on Saturday with the Derican Vice-Conmal

and a member of Jardine fat esun & Company, 1750.

je passed

the Golf Course to come out on the slope above Long Beach,

1.e. about seven to eight silee out of town and about two

miles above the sea. dere we dound an extensive area

under survey which we learied from the characters on a larg®

post was the site for the cwstruction of

anese Military

註otal(大日本陸軍病院建築地。 Por a few minutes

we saw only Chla se, come waude ·ing apparently aimlessly

about, others engaged in levɛlling the ground.

assed

several temporary erections of wood or batting. We then

saw a number of Jayanese officers who we junged were direct-

096 of then ran over to us and ingisated

ing the survey.

that we should return.

skirted part of the area under

survey, but considerou it advisable not to attest to ride

all roun.

The area is of considerable extent, robably more than

a mile on each side. I learn that the Ja meae have prev.

lously obliged tae villagers to Palove Meir graves, but it

18 only 26cntly tint theße slças of active survey and impend-

ing construction have appeared. The ground is parked out

with a great number of survey poles in the form of tall e osses

set out over the slope in straight lines. In addition to

the levelling of the ground, in various places along the

perimeter holes had been dug which we junged to be for the

foundations of a surroun 17g wall, and from their size it

All in all, it

87,#a73 88 if a very stout wall is planned.

looks as if the

ilitary forpit-1 will be a wall city in

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