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imposing new office building The hotel was already overcrowded, but [[red underline]] Grace's manager in Antofagasta [[/red underline]] had reserved a room for me. I was compelled however [[red underline]] to divide it for one night with a [[red underline]] young canadian [[/red underline]] business man, Mr. Morrow of Toronto. [[red underline]] Hotel is poorly equipped, [[/red underline]] a long flight of narrow marble steps sandwiched in between ground floor stores lend up to a small poorly equipped reception room [[red underline]] no place to send or write [[/red underline]] or anything. [[red  underline]] Meals are good and well served. Bathroom [[/red underline]] [[?]] but [[red underline]] ill equipped, no hot water [[/red underline]] or if [[strikethrough]] it is [[/strikethrough]] then trickles away now and then it is [[strikethrough]] rusty [[/strikethrough]] rusty red. Went to walk thru the town which is quite interesting
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and [[red underline]] resembles [[/red underline]] more an [[red underline]] European town. [[/red underline]] streets are generally narrow but clean and well kept, and lines include a measure of interesting stores displaying very well their goods. [[red underline]] Everywhere signs of German influence. Most of the drugstores are German, [[/red underline]] so many of the other stores, altho [[red underline]] British and French [[/red underline]] are pretty well represented. [[red underline]] American very little [[/red underline]] Swarthy [[red underline]] cholos, [[/red underline]] with their shirts, which have once been white hanging over their trousers do the manual work. With their [[red underline]] burros, mules, or horses [[/red underline]] saddled and packed with [[red underline]] primitive [[/red underline]] self made raw [[red underline]] hide outfits, [[/red underline]] give an air of picturesqueness. Everywhere [[red underline]] excellent fruit, grapes, peaches, pears, apples, figs