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[[underline]] spotless. [[/underline]] The Bridge deck where we spend most of our time looks more like a yacht. [[underline]] Dinner [[/underline]] and food [[underline]] are excellently cooked [[/underline]] by a [[underline]] Chink [[/underline]] and served on spotless linen and table ware. With the smallness of the boat [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] feels more like Yachting. [[/underline]] We have a fish line trawling out.
[[underline]] April 12. 1925. Sunday [[/underline]] Good sleep. Some [[underline]] ants [[/underline]] around in my cabin but am getting used to them. Islands to the East. Course. almost straight line from port to port [[strikethrough]] SE-S [[/strikethrough]] We are in [[underline]] South China Sea [[/underline]] Am told [[underline]] typhoon belt does not extend here. [[/underline]] and start only just North of Saigon We are now between the two monsoons. hence very quiet water. [[underline]] They [[/underline]] had
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very [[underline]] bad weather coming [[/underline]] Same storm which [[underlined]] wasted away the R.R. [[/underline]] - unusual Captain says. We carry our live stash for meals aboard. Several crates of Chickens, pigeons, a pig, 2 geese, one of which is shitting everywhere over the deck. Drinks are served - "Gin-pay" or Danish Beer - at 11 A M. and about time of taking noon sight. The others play cards. [[underline]] A jolly yachting Company. [[/underline]] Pleasant breeze
[[underline]] April 13. [[/underline]] Excellent night wind slightly ahead, hence good ventilation. I [[underline]] sleep naked every night, no cover. Captain says [[/underline]] we were [[underline]] lucky [[/underline]] this time only onions as freight. Last time his deck [[underline]] was filled with water buffalos and pigs. [[/underline]] That [[underline]] Norwegian. [[/underline]] E. A. Rodskog, of Christiana