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boring, grinding, and sounding from about 9 AM to 12:30 P.M. but did not hurt much beyond giving me buzzing head. Feel relieved. Knew Dr. [[strikethrough]] Kirk [[/strikethrough]] Kirk and Takamine. After lunch short nap. Engaged a guide. Mr. Neridi to drive out with me. Takes me to Naval museum. All relics of late war. Mangled torpedos, guns, battered and scarred, etc. Noticed among instruments taken from Russian war ships a set of [[red underline]] Weston's Ammeters. [[/red underline]] and Voltmeters
Drove thru town. Wholesale Japanese merchants. Houses here all black. No longer wood [[red underline]] but bamboo plastered with some plaster [[/red underline]] very thick. even the shutters are about 12" thick and
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plastered so as to make them fireproof. Heavy tiles. Everything looks very [[red underline]] heavy and somber. [[/red underline]] New houses shiny as lacquer but soon take dark smoky somber appearance. Small windows and openings and crowded surroundings each house quite close to the next give it a [[red underline]] crowded uncomfortable appearance. [[/red underline]] Must be very hot 
How about ventilation.
Went to Kuromon Temple Kwannon temple a [[red underline]] Budhist temple [[/red underline]] (See Terry's [[strikethrough]] Guide [[/strikethrough]] Japanese Empire page 215)
Interesting crowd. Temple dirty and ill cared. Crowded surroundings. Endless crowd. very orderly. Restaurants, venders
Sellers of offerings. Saints, Figures of Budha - Zoological collection etc. [[strikethrough]] Seems a [[/strikethrough]] The sight of it all reminds me some
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