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Big new square room and large tiled bathroom attached. Top floor and quiet, overlooks the gray tiled roofs of all the buildings clustering closely nearby. Good electric light [[underline]] room scrupulously clean. [[/underline]] 
There is an open [[strikethrough]] fire [[/strikethrough]] coal fire but not lit. There is a [[underline]] little portable electric heater [[/underline]] which can be moved from bath room to sleeping room. They Charge me 16 Dollars Mex = over 8½ Dollars American for room alone no meals. Outside there is a [[underline]] smiling Chinese [[strikethrough]] servant [[/strikethrough]] waiter [[/underline]] with his assistants always near.
The hotel is an opulently equipped large place. Large dining room, bookstall etc as in American Hotels.
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Very large dining room and ^[[large]] dancing floor in the center ^[[underline]] [[3 couples dancing lugubriously]] [[/underline]] and - unfortunately - again that [[underline]] horrid American Jazz Music. [[/underline]] Meal irreproachable, but [[underline]] beer and wine steep prices, [[/underline]] higher than in U.S before Volstead Act. Chinese brewed beer very good. Jostling hurring crowd in streets outside over the iron bridge crossing the [[strikethrough]] creek [[/strikethrough]] muddy creek thru which enters and leaves a continuous stream of boats, big and small, [[underline]] manned each by Chinese family [[/underline]] complete.
Pole masts are lowered (the larger are stepped in a [[underline]] tabernacle [[/underline]] of very simple construction. See further and also my photographs. [[underline]] Masts as in Japan are raised by hoisting [[/underline]] one mast [[underline]] by means of the halyard of the other [[/underline]] until