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80 and cheaper altho not so prententious as the enormous hotel is. The [[underline]] American Dollar = $1.77 [[/underline]] Mex. A man called [[underline]] Hagedorn [[/underline]] who was on the ship, looks like a whitebeared Chinese, with pale eyes, talks like a Yank, lives in [[underline]] Montclair [[/underline]] and has business in [[underline]] Manilla [[/underline]] and his wife is [[underline]] Philipino Spanish perhaps Jewish [[/underline]] and very small. His father was [[underline]] German. [[/underline]] This is the typical [[underline]] Eurasian. [[/underline]] March 4. [[underline]] I am still wearing my winter suit [[/underline]] but summer underwear. Room yesterday was slightly cool. Today it feels pleasant. They tell me the warm [[underline]] weather will soon begin. [[/underline]] At [[underline]] Messageries Maritimes [[/underline]] they tell me first steamer to [[underline]] Saigon [[/underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 81 leaves on March 15. SS. Ankor. ^[[Angkor]] Drove to [[underline]] Yacht Club. [[/underline]] Excellent anchorage only a [[strikethrough]] fe [[/strikethrough]] very few sail yachts of racing type. Nobody in except some Chinese Servants. Went to Yacht Yard of [[underline]] King: a Chinese boat ^[[and yacht]] builder. [[/underline]] A [[underline]] Chinese lighter-junk [[/underline]] was under construction. Careful work. Hull made of Chinese Fir; ditto the masts. Will be rigged with regular [[underline]] bamboo stayed sail [[/underline]] and is being provided [[underline]] with a motor. Rudder has losange-holes, "because it can be turned easier", [[/underline]] the Chinese foreman tells me. Most of engines in the yard are British, 2 are American; all old models. Yacht hulls and better boats also their [[underline]] sampans [[/underline]] are made of teak imported from ^[[?]] sampan it is strong but heavy.