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pleading for the grant of additional business privileges and concessions to [[red underline]] European financial adventurers of every sort, amongst whom were some Belgian Jews 
Some of these concessions were directly against the interests of some of the old Indian [[/red underline]] land holders and [[red underline]] Porfirio's [[/red underline]] truest friends, who turned into enemies, and when the moment of peril came abandoned him or joined his enemies. He says [[red underline]] Huerta [[/red underline]] was a man brutal in instincts and who was [[red underline]] almost continuously drunk. [[/red underline]]
May 11. Sea quiet and steady temperature as usually. 
Am sending a wireless message to [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] advising that we shall probably arrive by Saturday.
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For the last days the sea has been unusually smooth hardly a rimple. [[strikethrough]] Saw [[/strikethrough]] Tufts of [[red underline]] Saragossa weed floating [[/red underline]] around steadily. I finished reading a book on [[red underline]] Brazil published 1857, [[/red underline]] but which is very interesting and contains many useful data. Kidder and Fletcher. Brazil and the Brazilians.
At noon: Lat = 26.07 N
         Long. 63.36 W
Run = 295 Miles, or 295/24 = or about 12.3 Knots which is more than the maximum the propeller should give. As I counted myself the revolutions and found them exact I suppose the pitch of the screw is greater than reported. 
May 12. Since last night the temperature has dropped a few degrees and it is nice and pleasant and dry weather Wireless give reports of [[red underline]] Daniel's [[/red underline]]