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I get into some other town to be watched by some other equally diligent officer. Since my association with the American Consul [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] at Nagasaki who met me at Kioto and with whom I spent some time the police seem to regard me most suspiciously. From here I go to Gifu and from there into the mountains (very unfrequented) for a ten days trip including twelve hours down the rapids of the Tenryugawa by a special boat engaged for the trip. I require eight men [[strikethrough]] past [[/strikethrough]] all of the ten days and in some places three or four additional. Accommodations are limited and my guide is trying to find out if some blasted detective will also have to be provided for. This does not worry me any but I would like to know whether its my own bad conduct or that of our Consul at Nagasaki which makes my personality [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] so 

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interesting to the police-perhaps its the combination!! Harvie Newberry is still at Kioto where I found him on my arrival. He has been ill but is all right again. I am quite well and in the mood for a little mountaineering but shall attempt no mountain climbing for two reasons. First, I don't want to take too much exercise. Second, I am a little suspicious about this climate and [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] its effect at high elevations. I hope yourself and family are all enjoying perfect health. To you all my very best wishes and kindest regards.
Faithfully
Charles L. Freer

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