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[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Unusual aspect [[/red underline]] of waiting multitude on pier. [[red underline]] Seems like Opera  comique. [[/red underline]] Stately Japanese in becoming grayish and black kimonos ordinary Panama hat or ordinary american straw hat and walking about on [[red underline]] wooden stilt-clods. [[/red underline]] Japanese [[red underline]] women [[/red underline]] and their [[red underline]] doll-like children [[/red underline]] on back. All so new. [[red underline]] Coolies [[/red underline]] with [[red underline]] loin cloth. [[/red underline]] all eagerly busy handling baggage. talking rapidly but everything orderly. Then the silent running [[red underline]] Jinrickka's. [[/red underline]] with man-horse running like trotting horse. Japanese ladies military men in them all running too and from any and every place. [[red underline]] I would think they would [[/red underline]] burst out laughing but every one accepts it as a matter of fact except myself. [[red underline]] Dr. Kondo [[/red underline]] and the Gentlemen of [[red underline]] Sankyo & Co. Mr. Hioshara [[/red underline]] and [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] Turuya [[/red underline]] and some of [[red underline]] Kanto [[/red underline]] Chemical Co all waiting for me. [[red underline]] Very deep bowings and [[/red underline]]
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repeated three times, they all offer their visiting cards so do I. Then they get a [[red underline]] Studebaker Automobile [[/red underline]] in which is stuffed all of us plus my baggage and we drive to the station. I would have preferred a [[strikethrough]] risk [[/strikethrough]] ricksaw but [[red underline]] automobile is still scarce and an [[/red underline]] article of luxury. Polite helpful driver. Then arrive at Station enter in [[red underline]] little train [[/red underline]] similar to suburban English trains, low ceiling and small locomotive. [[red underline]] Roadbed [[/red underline]] and road [[red underline]] good clean, [[/red underline]] well kept and substantial same remark for signals and telegraph posts. 1st 2d and 3d class same as in Europe. Smoking in cars. Benches running lengthwise. A [[red underline]] Japanese woman [[/red underline]] enters, just dressed [[strikethrough]] lit [[/strikethrough]] exactly like hundreds of others I have seen in Honolulu and here and whom I assumed were the very modest class. But [[red underline]] Dr. Kondo [[/red underline]] introduces me and says it is [[red underline]] Miss Asano, [[/red underline]] daughter of

Transcription Notes:
The word "Jinrickka's" probably refers to rickshaws from the original Japanese term "jinrikisha."