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Several [[underlined]] neat looking bungalows - [[/underlined]] quarantine stations. Sampans and Chinese Junks. Small [[underlined]] graceful pirogues, [[/underlined]] paddled or skulled from aft. Fish nets. [[underlined]] Sampans with raking masts and lug sail with large upper yard, which balance well [[/underlined]] when running before the wind and similar to those described. April 3 [[underlined]] Junks have somewhat sharper bow than Chinese [[/underlined]] 
Little woven palm huts along shores prettily constructed 
Here and there a small [[underlined]] pagoda [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] with bright tile roof and [[underlined]] gabels with curved pointed ends which remind me of Pnom-Penh [[/underlined]] King's Palace design. [[underlined]] Tombs [[/underlined]] in shape of [[underlined]] sharp stone cones [[/underlined]] similar to those in [[underlined]] Pnom Penh. [[/underlined]] Then
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later nearing [[underlined]] Bangkok [[/underlined]] Floating [[underlined]] house-boat [[/underlined]] shops, fastened along shore. Then steamers [[underlined]] Danes [[/underlined]] predominate here 
Then wharves, steam launches, steam boats at anchor or tied on wharves, [[underlined]] one story [[strikethrough]] tin [[strikethrough]] iron roofed store-houses [[/underlined]] stone buildings - low. Above the town see towers of [[strikethrough]] [[Watls?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[pagodas]] or [[/underlined]] Tombs [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] or[[/strikethrough]] Boat drops anchor before [[underlined]] Oriental hotel of which entrance is from the water, Sampan comes to fetch me [[/underlined]] Custom-officials in Uniform are [[underlined]] Siamese; [[/underlined]] speak English very informal except that they want to put [[underlined]] fire-arms of Varney in bond [[/underlined]] until he leaves. In all these ports they are very [[strikethrough]] strict [[/strikethrough]] strict [[underlined]] about importation [[/underlined]] of firearms and they are right about this.