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docks and breakwaters for [[red underline]] Antofagasta. [[/red underline]] Went ashore under the impression of seeing the same dirty squalid town as Iquique [[/red underline]] but found a well paved clean looking city considerably [[/red underline]] larger and better [[strikethrough]] sto [[/strikethrough]] situated with [[red underline]] many well built buildings [[/red underline]] altho here also wood structures seem to predominate. The men of the [[red underline]] Guggenheim mining interests [[/red underline]] as well as my [[red underline]] Anaconda friends all left here. [[/red underline]] After walking thru the streets for a while took a two horse open carriage instead of an automobile and my driver drove me along the lonely sandy flat alone to the [[red underline]] little neat restaurant [[/red underline]] of the [[red underline]] Automobile Club [[/red underline]] and back just in time
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to get back to the boat. In boarding the [[red underline]] swells were so high that it required some dodging to get on the boarding ladder, I got half a ducking by an advancing wave, [[/red underline]] others got worse. I wonder what happens in bad weather, this being excellent weather.
The town has many [[red underline]] British and American [[/red underline]] business houses and seems very progressive [[red underline]] I believe some day that stretch along the shore and the auto mobile Club will be better appreciated for a residence quarter and country houses will be built there. [[/red underline]] I notice that the petroleum tanks are almost as big as the water tanks. As in Iquique and Arica, [[red underline]] water is quite a scarcity, [[/red underline]] Altho it seems to be used here to better advantage