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[[underlined in red]] fearful snoring of Hendrick He is the champion snorer nobody else approaches him even the worst I ever heard are mere amateurs compared [[/underlined in red]] to him.
Aug 18. Up early. Calm pleasant day. Quite hot but we do not feel is as we are moving. Passed slowly along [[underlined in red]] Esopus [[/underlined in red]]Island eavoking ^[[evoking]] [[underlined in red]] dear memories when George as a young [[/underlined in red]] boy used to camp there and when [[underlined in red]] Celine [[/underlined in red]] and I went to join him for two days and slept on hard rock. - There were two camps, so we did not go ashore and dropped anchor somewhat further for a short refreshing swim followed by excellent beefsteak lunch. [[underlined in red]] Hendrick is undoubdetly a cheerful entertaining traveling [[/underlined in red]]
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companion. Told him the story of my unpleasant experience of [[underlined in red]] Wiechmann and  ^[[George]] Benjamin. [[/underlined in red]] He told me the way the story was told to him with the same [[underlined in red]] old cowardly lies. Wiechmann's undoubtedly a man who cannot tell the truth - weak minded character as I [[strikethrough]] sized [[/strikethrough]] judged him [[strikethrough]] the las [[/strikethrough]] after my unpleasant experience. [[/underlined in red]] I do not mind what some people think about me after they have heard such lies as long [[underlined in red]] as I know that they are so ill informed. [[/underlined in red]] Warm weather but dry. At 6:30 arrived at [[underlined in red]] Albany [[/underlined in red]] and anchored on side opposite city. Supper ashore but slept on boat. Noisy neighborhood, locomotives, big river boats etc.
Aug 19. [[underlined in red]] Hendricks [[/underlined in red]] brother in law, Prof. [[underlined in red]] Terry [[/underlined in red]] of Columbia, a lawyer