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[[underline]] preventative against Cholera, [[/underline]] makes him wonder whether there is more Cholera in town. B. says [[underline]] Cholera is endemic [[/underline]] to a lesser or greater degree amongst these Chinese but [[underline]] seldom white people catch it. [[/underline]]
[[strikethrough]] This evening [[/strikethrough]] I dislike to leave this cheerful restaurant of the Rotonde where I began to get acquainted. Alexander Powell is all wrong when he speaks of [[underline]] excessive drinking in Saigon. I saw none of it, [[/underline]] perhaps his friends and he did. All these [[underline]] Frenchmen, [[/underline]] married and unmarried, [[underline]] live economically, [[/underline]] attend to their business and are
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very moderate in their drinking; imcomparably better than Americans, Britishers or other Northern people. I have not seen a single drunken man while I was here.
[[left margin]] Pnom-Penh [[/left margin]]
The boat for [[underline]] Pnom- [[/strikethrough]] Peh [[/strikethrough]] Penh, [[/underline]] a little freight steamer lies just across the street. I have a little cabin with fan and electric light to myself. It left at 10 A.M. There are a number of steerage passengers Chinese, Annamites, Cambodyans, two Chetties etc.
Only 2 other cabin passengers.
[[underline]] March 22 - Sunday. [[/underline]]
Little [[underline]] steamer [[/underline]] is called [[strikethrough]] Louis Rouf [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] "Louis Rueff". [[/underline]]  Service Chinese or Annamites. Cheerful skeleton-like steward who attends to smoking room and meals and speak a few words of French.