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placed below a seat, [[strikethrough]] I  [[/strikethrough]] in the [[strikethrough]] plash [[/strikethrough]] dip-splash bathroom. I am told this is the same in [[underline]] the Raffles [[/underline]] and other hotels. Am told also that the [[underline]] Europe Hotel [[/underline]] is considered of better tone than the Raffles. Find there is scant accommodation for steamers to get back. [[underline]] All steamers filled and do not leave before June 4-6, or 8th. [[/underline]] One French steamer [[underline]] "Amboise" 10000 [[/underline]] tons, of the Menageries leaves June 3 arrives Marseille June 27 has an [[underline]] inside [[/underline]] cabin or a berth in a 3 person cabin. All other boats are full.
Went to [[underline]] Wing-Lung, the best tailor [[/underline]] in ^[[High]] street near Hotel and ordered [[underline]] another white suit with standing collar [[/underline]] and one special [[underline]] pajama [[/underline]] in
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airplane-cotton. Measure taken [[underline]] 9 AM, [[/underline]] suit ready at [[underline]] 5 P.M. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] May 26. [[/underline]] Better luck. S.S. The [[underline]] Fushimi Maru [[/underline]] leaving May 28th of the N.Y.K. (Nippon [[strikethrough]] Yes [[/strikethrough]] Yusen Kaisha) stops at [[underline]] Mallaca, Penang, Colombo, Port Said, Marseille for London, due Marseille June 21, [[/underline]] has a room for one person free on upper deck. I took it immediately. Cost - $773 silver [[underline]] 
(445$) [[/underline]] Wired to George accordingly 9 words = $16.10 silver or $9.20 American.
[[underline]] May 27. Reuterberg, [[/underline]] the Swede who travelled with me from [[underline]] Bangkok [[/underline]] was at the hotel. He has been in hospital for an operation, abscesses on bowels and is waiting for next steamer. [[underline]] Captain Edwards, [[/underline]] the Welshman [[underline]] with the claim of hundreds of million [[/underline]]