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[[preprinted]] Monday, January 18, 1909  [[/preprinted]]

Well, we passed the quarter-century mark today.  Seems to me I'm getting older every doggone year.

Stewart beat it up to Nairobi today, en route for Nakuru. We went to the station with him, and it was the first time I'd seen a railroad train in about a year and a half.  Come to think of it, I haven't ridden on an electric car, nor been in a subway, nor talked through a telephone, for the same length of time.  I feel like a regular Kikuyu when I think of it all. 

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[[preprinted]] Tuesday, January 19, 1909  [[/preprinted]]

You remember that Mrs. -- that came down on the boat with me?  Wasn't she a thorough peacherine if there ever was one?  Well, come over here and I'll whisper something.

Yessir, straight goods!  By gum, though, but she is a queen when it comes to looks.  If I didn't have it from an unimpeachable source, and never believed any such yarn as I'm a-tellin' you, but it's really so.

I thought you and I were a little world-wise when we left the States, but we weren't, my boy!  But she's some peach, [[underlined]] wot? [/underlined]]