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The farther part of the forest (towards Budenheim, appears like a native forest. I took photo 27 near Budenheim. I reached Budenheim just in time to escape a rainstorm. Many gardens towards Mainz.[[insertion below]] [[dash underlined]] on sand [[/dash underlined]] [[/insertion below]]
I left at 5:51 P.M. and reached Mainz at 6:04 P.M. I waited for Paul and Bertha, who, however, had come in earlier, and found that they had put up at the nearby Bayerische Hof, and secured room 8 for me.
After supper we took a walk about the city, which also has many narrow streets in the older part, saw the churches [[gap for later completion]]     , but the greatest interest was centered in the crowds, much excited over the news that Servia had not accepted Austria's ultimatum, and that war is inevitable. Excited groups gathered about the newspaper offices, and officers showed much excitement. It was raining in the evening and very cool. Bought cards & guides & boxes.

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[[underlined]] July 26, 1914 - Sunday [[/underlined]]
The hotel people failed to call us, but I awakened early. 
Early in the morning there was much commotion among the soldiers and officers,- quite movements, personal baggage appeared, and evidently much excitement was on. There were also several groups of excursionists who marched by with brass bands.
We prepared for the Rhine trip, and started at 8:10 A.M. on the steamer "Rheingold". The day started out bright, but soon became cold and windy, with the sky mostly overcast.
We stopped at Biebrich, - first stop down the Rhine. Our tickets read to St. Goar, which is near the Loreleÿ. Biebrich is the port for Wiesbaden.
[[wavy line bracketing the right hand ends of the remaining 4 lines of text]] The water of the Rhine is not clear, but rather yellowish, - clearer however than the Danube when I saw it. We stopped at Niederwalluf. All the
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