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[[preprinted]] 124 [[/preprinted]] Pitching. Water splashing on deck. Strong breeze. Uncomfortably sultry. Portholes closed on my side. During night became cooler. [[margin]] Aug. 13 [[/margin]] Next morning cool & crispy but still windy, but very agreeable. Colder weather now - near the [[banks?]]. There is a fat fair lawyer aboard looks like the burgomaster of Hoboken, rather loud plays pinnocle all day. Hislaire is his name. I have now written up all my notes and begin to feel rather bored. [[margin]] Aug 16 [[/margin]] Calmer weather not so [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 125 [[/preprinted]] cool. Clouded sky. We get news by Marconi via SS. Compania about fire at Monticello. Operator of Zeppelin scandal of Heynze speculations etc. This is unusually uninteresting company [[strikethrough]] mostly [[/strikethrough]] and I begin to feel much bored. No interesting books to read neither. This night, felt very tired and oppressed, restless sleep and continuous dream thinking as if I had fever. [[margin]] Aug 15 S.S. Vaderland[[/margin]] Got up with heavy head and feeling of broken limbs. [[underlined]] Wang one of the Chinamen had same symptoms. [[/underlined]] Did we have some small attack ptomaine poisoning Bright weather [[strikethrough]] side [[/strikethrough]] beam winds, ship rolls a little for first time. Steerage pays [[insertion]] $80.00 [[/insertion]] 410 frs? which is very disproportionate as