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I had come with such a bang (8) T.S.S. ,,NIEUW AMSTERDAM" [[strikethrough]] separated the outside [[/strikethrough]] seemed nearly to bend the sky (1) - [[strikethrough]] they had only seemed [[/strikethrough]] high before [[strikethrough]] but now it as I have said [[/strikethrough]] nearly up to the [[strikethrough]] sky [[/strikethrough]]. But what a lovely place - The sun was shining [[gracefully?]] - twos reflected in a shining stream on where [[strikethrough]] suf [[/strikethrough]] surface has many kinds of water lilies growing in place [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] of flower I saw little boats & bigger ones sail boat & row boats & little steamers boats all attatched [[attached]]. I get every once and a while they would unhook themselves take a sail or steamer row around & then come back as a brood of [[strikethrough]]chickens[[/strikethrough]] duck does to their mother, so they came back to the plant or vine that nurished [[nourished]] them. There were great trees whose tops I could hardly see whose branches were ladened with bon-bons of all sort [[strikethrough]] candies [[/strikethrough]] such as I had seen filling the window of the shops & who beauty had always