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[[underline]] River is shallow [[/underline]] - part of the Delta.  Water is about the color of the Nile. Further down it becomes somewhat clearer and looks greenish. Flat shores with mountains in the distance. Junks, [[underline]] Sampans [[/underline]] and [[underline]] fishing boats. [[/underline]] Shores planted with [[underline]] rice. [[/underline]] Villages here and there drab clusters of brick houses, with one or [[strikethrough]] several [[/strikethrough]] 4 square brick towers [[underline]] used as forts.[[/underline]] Some of them have a high [[underline]] peaked bamboo [[/underline]] or straw hut which stands high out above the surroundings. Several of the [[underline]] hills [[/underline]] bear on their top a [[underline]] pagoda [[/underline]] which at a distance looks like a large smoek-stake. Am told summers in [[underline]] Canton very hot [[/underline]] and sultry, much rain and mosquitoes. The hot period is about to begin. The second 
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[[left margin]] Alex. W. van Anden, Holland china Trading Co. Hong Kong. [[/left margin]]
part of [[underline]] Pearl River [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] resembles [[/strikethrough]] reminds me of Japan Inland Sea. A [[underline]] steamer going up [[/underline]] river hails us to stop and [[underline]] tells us that [[/underline]] the passenger Steamer [[underline]] Hanon [[\underline]] which left Canton last evening for Hong Kong [[underline]] lies disabled [[/underline]] ^[at anchor]] with broken machinery and is awaiting us to transfer her passengers [[underline]] on our [[/underline]] boat to [[underline]] Hong Kong. Hanon [[/underline]] has aboard about [[underline]] 200 [[/underline]] passengers mostly [[underline]] Americans [[/underline]] who [[underline]] are touring the World [[/underline]] on [[underline]] SS. California. [[/underline]] They looked a rather tired lot specially the men. They have not slept much last night.  Many of them look like an awkward lot of [[strikethrough]] the useful [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] "Babbits" [[/underline]] same old fat men and women, many sour-looking individuals, [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] etc. Arrived in Hong Kong at 4 P.M. Then found that I had no room altho' I had reserved it. Finally at 6 P.M