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Hotel Oriental very much better than I expected. A little Garden fronting the water. Roomy dining room Mrs. [[underlined]] Maire manager. [[/underlined]] a cheerful wide awake manager bosses the whole thing. [[underlined]] Chinks [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Siamese. [[/underlined]] Chinks are most active. My room N:1 on floor above. Long verandah with row of rooms. Electric light and fan. [[underlined]] Teak [[/underlined]] floor [[strikethrough]] Place looks [[/strikethrough]] and on rear Verandah each room has a [[underlined]] splash box. provided [[/underlined]] with big stone jar and little tin splash pan. W. C.'s are all in a row and [[underlined]] cleanly kept. [[/underlined]] So is the rooms. Hotel [[/strikethrough]] lo[[?]] [[/strikethrough]] needs paint outside [[underlined]] but is clean inside. England [[/underlined]] is the foreign language here. Few of the natives understand it. Much [[underlined]] Danish [[/underlined]] is spoken
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among business men and shipping men. [[underlined]] Danes, [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Danish [[/underlined]] goods, [[underlined]] Danish [[/underlined]] beer, and [[underlined]] Danish [[/underlined]] shipping lines [[strikethrough]] Aug 8. [[/strikethrough]] It feels comfortably cool and everybody is astonished at it. It has rained much. Paper says for 10 years between 1902-1911 earliest date of rainfall was April 30. on 1909 and latest May 11 in 1905 and 1910. [[strikethrough]] Remo [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] April 8. [[/underlined]] Good night. Remarkably cool. [[underlined]] only 74˚F at 6 AM. Am told it was stifling hot 2 days ago and way up in nineties Went to [[underlined]] American Consulate. [[/underlined]] Consul is away but a pharmacist [[underlined]] Dr. Hansen [[/underlined]] replaces him. Office near hotel so are all banks. Got [[underlined]] cable from home All well [[/underlined]] and saying [[underlined]] Redman [[/underlined]] will be in Europe first part of [[underlined]] June [[/underlined]] would like have me present discuss purchase of [[underlined]] Moldersite"[[/underlined]]