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a four masted schooner
Water temperature = [[underline]] 87° [[/underline]] Ship making 14.6 Knots
[[underline]] June 12. [[/underline]] Slight Northerly winds, [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] 84°F at 6 A.M. but still sultry. Later on more breeze and it feels drier. Many steamers pass. Evening a [[underline]] Japanese dinner [[/underline]] on upper deck all squatting on floor. Plenty of Saké. [[underline]] The five Chinese participate, [[/underline]] but [[underline]] do not know how to squat [[/underline]] and what to do with their legs nor do they seem to know the food and the drinks altho' they [[underline]] know how to handle the shopsticks [[/underline]]
[[underline]] June 13. [[/underline]] Nice Northerly Breeze much stronger. Pleasant and dry. Temp. at 6 AM = [[strikethrough]] 60° [[/strikethrough]] 70°F 
Best day [[underline]] since leaving Hong Kong [[/underline]] early March
At 4 P.M = 78°F. Everybody
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expected very hot weather in the [[underline]] Red Sea. [[/underline]]
Water sports this afternoon in ^[[canvass]] swimming tank. [[strikethrough]] Ja All [[/strikethrough]] Japanese, Chinese, Britishers and Scandinavians
Fresh dry pleasant wind all day.
[[underline]] June 14 [[/underline]] Last night [[underline]] coolest night. [[/underline]] No fan used and slept under [[underline]] heavy cotton sheet. [[/underline]] Temperature this [[strikethrough]] morg [[/strikethrough]] 6 AM = [[underline]] 72° [[/underline]] Same strong Northerly. See both barren shores. On [[strikethrugh]] S [[/strikethrough]] P.S. [[strikethrough]] shore [[/strikethrough]] sandy barren shore plainly visible, [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] desert ^[[desert]] everywhere. Distant [[strikethrough]] ragged [[/strikethrough]] barren mountains with ragged crest. Pleasantly cool and dry.
At 8 A.M. [[underline]] Mount Sinai [[/underline]] on Port Side. [[underline]] Barren looking [[/underline]] like all the other mountains one sees. Both shores well visible