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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
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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