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of gambling casino. [[strikethrough]] Am told next time should [[?]] Coimbra and [[/strikethrough]] Back at hotel at 8:30 P.M when it was dark
[[underline]] May 9. [[/underline]] Much delay getting my passport visaed but finally am able to catch train for [[striekthrough]] Madrid [[/strikethrough]] Bordeaux 
Pleasant train makes good speed. Find that I have as traveling companion in my sleeping compartment a man who makes excellent impression speaks excellent French and some English. is the director of some important Portuguese bank his name is de Almeira and he lives in Lisbon
Pass Coimbra which seems very picturesque. A graduate from there who is going to China as Portuguese Consul speaks so enthusiastically about Coimbra and environs
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and the University that I shall probably visit there if I again come this way. Am told there is a good hotel and living is inexpensive. An Englishman is enchanted with his recent experience at a picturesque town near by (for name see Baedeker ^[[Bussara]] ) where there is an excellent small hotel. Much timber land and small pines. Portugal is undoubdetly picturesque. I notice that altho' Portuguese reads much like Spanish; when it is spoken it is so different that it sounds more as Russian or Polish
May 10. Good rest in train Up early - Gallician mountains with green well cultivated patches. Many tunnels San Sebastian then Irun