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[[underline]] Guaranty Trust Co in [[/underline]] New York is his uncle.
[[underline]] April 5 [[/underline]] (Sunday) Leave for [[underline]] Bangkok [[/underline]] by the little steamship "Le Gow - "General Maurice Long". A [[underline]] long name [[/underline]] for a ship of barely [[underline]] 700 tons. [[/underline]] A shower this morning. That greek proprietor of Grand Hotel, [[strikethrough]] Manouris [[/strikethrough]] in Pnom Penh (Manouris) arrived Yesterday with his motor car; [[underline]] has fever. [[/underline]] One of the big [[underline]] lizzards [[/underline]] which cries "To-kay" - "To-ay" has been caught by the dog. It is about 10" long and about 1 1/2 in. diameter. Has a wide mouth and wants to bite. Is said to be poisonous?? Has a pretty skin, of pale
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green and red brown striped small scales. Its paws have [[underline]] flat fingers, [[/underline]] provided with little scale which permit better adherence on walls etc.
At 4 P.M. [[underline]] Steamer [[/underline]] is announced. Drive to the little pier. Steamer is about [[underline]] one mile distance at anchor. [[/underline]] Gas - open launch tows sampan with passengers mostly all Chinese coolies or Ammonites or Cambodgians. There is another [[underline]] passenger from Kampot [[/underline]] with me a young intelligent [[underline]] Frenchman [[/underline]] who is an [[underline]] Inspecteur de l'insignement [[/underline]] and goes to a little Island to give a Cinema show to the children of the school. He promises me to send copy of his