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14 Egg and spoon race. Human wheelbarrow race. "Casey are you there?" Valise and shoe race etc. Feb 17. [[underline]] A lost day, [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] lat. 180°[[/strikethrough]] longitude 180° Feb 18. Gave myself [[strikethrough]] last [[/strikethrough]] third and [[underline]] last injection of anti-typhoid serum. [[/underline]] Very little reaction, almost no pain Evening [[underline]] Bal Masqué. [[/underline]] Cannibals - Chinamen, Pirates Arabs etc. Slightly cooler. The shower baths measures 4'x 3' but 3'x 3' would be ample for my yacht. Total dimensions of wash room & shower bath are [[image: diagram of wash room and shower bath with annotations "w.c.", "4'", and "7½'"]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 15 Got a [[strikethrough]] cable [[/strikethrough]] wireless from Yokohama signed [[underline]] Taguchi, [[/underline]] welcoming me. Feb 19. Light head winds Lat 25°. Evening amateur concert and entertainment. Mock trial All well arranged. One of my [[strikethrough]] pass [[/strikethrough]] fellow-passengers who is very studious is [[underline]] Prince Ohyama, [[/underline]] (9 Onden, Aoyama Tokyo) who is a [[underline]] Captain in the Imperial Army of Japan [[/underline]] and who is deeply engaged in studying [[underline]] Anthropology [[/underline]] in a German Textbook. He is a very cheerful fellow, father of 5 children and [[underline]] speaks better German than English. [[/underline]] He tells me it [[underline]] takes an intelligent Japanese about one year to be able to read English and about 1½ years to speak it [[/underline]] He says [[underline]] English is easiest to acquire for a Japanese. [[/underline]] Next comes [[underline]] French; and German [[/underline]] is