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I begin again to enjoy life in meeting real men not mere puppets. _I take again interest in my future work. How much bigger all these americans are to all these trifling pigmies and emaciated nobodies I have met during these weeks.
April 7. Up early. Continued fine weather no motion whatever. Very steady boat Started writing immediately kept at it all morning. Delightful quietness in the roomy clean well ventilated cabin. Listened to more South [[underline]] African stories: Boers [[/underline]]do not like the Dutch feeling somewhat like a canadian feels towards englishmen Some social invitations 

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are dependent whether the [[strikethrough]] kaffir [[/strikethrough]] cook is drunk or not [[strikethrough]] -Lady So or So [[/strikethrough]] Extreme snobbishness of some [[underline]] englishmen [[/underline]] and particularly [[underline]] english [[/underline]] women in the Cape.  English girls drinking alone and smoking cigarettes from noon till evening. Selby says that South Africa is very similar to Mexico or Arizona
April 8, 1914.  Up early. fine restful sleep. Started writing at once. At it all morning Selby says [[underline]] the Kaffirs make [[/underline]] a drink on which they can get drunk [[underline]] within 3 hours [[/underline]] after they have started with the raw materials, including fermentation and everything
April 9.  Continued splendid weather. Up early wrote letters all morning. Feel excellently - pleased again
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