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Very well equipped. [[underline]] Sperry Gyro-Compass and Gyro automatic steering. [[/underline]] The course once being set the rudder works automatically by means of electric power operated by [[underline]] Gyro compass. [[/underline]] There is a [[underline]] magnetic compass nearby. [[/underline]] A recording graphic shows the course of the ship, day by day - automatic. A radio bearing finder enables to locate position by radio signals.  
A [[underline]] fire detecting device announces immediately any undue increase of temperature in any of the staterooms. [[/underline]] 
There is also a device which [[strikethrough]] takes [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] blows samples of the air contained in any of the Compartments in the hold or other not readily  accessible places. [[/underline]]
A [[strikethrough]] certain [[/strikethrough]]Swedish Civil Engineer Mr. Koehler of Hong Kong sells [[underline]] automatic lighted buoys etc. [[/underline]]
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He tells me [[underline]] piracy is still going on in these seas, [[/underline]] and that it happens that ^[[local]] passenger steamers are suddenly [[underline]] overwhelmed with pirates who entered as passengers. [[/underline]] Some of the steamers now keep the [[underline]] Chinese [[strikethrough]] in cages pas [[/strikethrough]] steerage passengers in caged compartments and carry armed guards. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] March 3. [[/underline]] Up early.  We are in very picturesque waters. [[underline]] The water is blue again [[/underline]] and everywhere there are pointed hills slightly greenish but bereft of trees.  [[underline]] "Junks" [[/underline]] and smaller fishing boats everywhere. The shape of their sails is different from ^[[those in]] Sanghai. A beautiful land locked harbor with picturesque hills around everywhere. [[underline]] Second to Rio de Janeiro [[/underline]] it is the loveliest harbor I have seen. The hulls of the Junks