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hundred times over-paid for the long journey from America. But my introduction to continental India promises to overflow the cup many times. Letters of introduction are quite unnecessary. I have many, but as yet have presented none. And alone is the way to do the thing that I am up to -- for hundreds of reasons.

Of course, I often wish that many of my friends could be with me, but I shall advise one and all to come here alone. This will, I fear, sound to you cold and distant but its neither and its right as well.

From Colombo to Tuticorin (some two hundred miles) I had a fearful trip. A terrible north east monsoon struck our ship and things were really mixed for a couple of hours. I was the only white passenger, but the two or three hundred natives on deck suffered fearfully. Not one of them was sicker than I but I had a cabin and they had none. And after seeing what they went through without one single word of complaint, I would like to have the power to compel the British India S.S. Co. to provide different accommodations. [[strikethrough]] Its the most brutal plan of carrying passengers imaginable, and I believe that nowhere in the world but here would the powers that be permit it. The English are Devilish rulers. [[/strikethrough]] omit You are all very well, I trust, and all goes smoothly and happily in Detroit I hope.  Give me Pingrer any day rather than some others I know of here.
Yours ever
CLF