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above this. I wonder how their exposed knees [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] stand the mosquitoes?
[[strikethrough]] Yester [[/strikethrough]] There is a [[underline]] shipwrecked crew of Chinese [[/underline]] on deck eating their rice. Yesterday [[underline]] this steamer [[/underline]] in passing [[underline]] thru a fog [[/underline]] ran [[underline]] into a Junk [[/underline]] and the latter was cut into. Junk had no bell nor fog horn. Am told the [[underline]] two halves floated off [[/underline]] separately; this is the [[underline]] advantage [[/underline]] of the [[underline]] honeycombed compartment construction. [[/underline]] All [[strikethrough]] sear [[/strikethrough]] were taken off the floating [[strikethrough]] pieces [[/strikethrough]] halves.  There are [[underline]] 8 men [[/underline]] 5 women and 4 children. The accident occurred near [[underline]] Swatow. [[/underline]] They [[underline]] speak a dialect nobody can understand, the Cantonese Chinese cannot understand [[/underline]] them. They had some of their saved belongings in bundles on deck, amongst them their dol-like [[underline]] house gods. [[/underline]]
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The ship is overrun by Chinese whose sampans are lying near, and who sell every kind of article to the sailors and crew and passengers There is quite a competition in offering Canton-bamboo chairs. The nice chairs I saw on the Lun-Shan and for which I was asked 3.25-3.50 Hong Kong Mex in Hong Kong are offered [[underline]] now at 3.00 [[/underline]] and I am sure that if I offered [[underline]] 2.50 [[/underline]] I would get them. A Bird feather brooch was offered at 1.50 H.K. Mex. I tried 1.00 offer, and immediately he answered: [[underline]] "Can do", [[/underline]] and I got it. I dislike bidding and bargaining but these people expect it An hour before steamer left, the smoking room was filled with [[underline]] dignified looking Chinese gentlemen, women [[/underline]] and girls who came to see off one of their friends The old gentlemen ordered [[underline]] champagne [[/underline]] which was distributed [[underline]] sparingly [[/underline]] in tall thin glasses