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dress [[underline]] entirely in black, black trousers and black dinner-coat. [[/underline]] They come from [[underline]] Japan and China and places where there is winter. Nearer the Equator white and always white except for the black trousers in Singapore seems more prevalent. [[/underline]] Somewhat more wind today.
[[underline]] June 1. 1925. [[/underline]] Fresh wind keeps up but temperature remains the same. [[underline]] Food is not so carefully prepared as on Dutch steamers but is well served [[/underline]] and some dishes are quite good.  
Prices for drinks etc are in Sterling. Japanese Beer and Saki are also in Yen. The [[underline]] Mangosteens [[/underline]] purchased in Penang are still in excellent condition.
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I also bought some of the fruit called [[underline]] Rambotan? [[/underline]] which is smaller and has a [[underline]] pretty rosy or red tint [[/underline]] and in a bunch [[strikethrough]] almu [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] looks like a bunch of flowers [[/underline]] it [[strikethrough]] has a b [[/strikethrough]] is about 1" thick and about 1½ long 
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[[underline]] size and shape of a small egg [[/underline]] and is covered with soft thornlike appendices, 
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has a thin skin which easily ruptures on pressure and releases an [[underline]] egglike semitransparent [[/underline]] jelly like fruit, which [[underline]] tastes somewhat like a mangosteen [[/underline]] slightly acid but somewhat sweeter and slightly more consistent. Inside it has a pit which is as soft as an almond and can be eaten as thus. It is [[underline]] somewhat similar [[/underline]] to the Chinese [[strikethrough]] Li-chee [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Li-chee nut, [[/underline]] but the gelatinous fruit does not release the