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[[left margin in red]] [[underlined in red]] London [[underlined in red]] British soldiers [[/left margin in red]]
[[underlined]] June 26. Sunday. [[/underlined]] Pleasant weather. Went out early walking in the parks. Parade of the house guards, and change of the watch etc. same as in 1884. The English lack the sense of humor, when you see the soldiers in their exercises, make contorsions like marionettes or mechanical automatons and some of their absurd accoutrements 
Ridiculous high patent leather boots, with pointed laps sticking out above and rubbing their knees and thighs. - Heavy awkward [[underlined in red]] bear caps in this hot weather, [[/underlined in red]] and which require art and attention to keep balanced. Strutting stiff movements. [[strikethrough]] A [[/strikethrough]] Vaudeville chorus movements at least have a reason and all [[underlined in red]] onlookers are deadly serious [[/underlined in red]] - not a smile! Even when the Guards stamp the ground with one leg as if they wanted to smother something every time they turn around. A show of the kind in the U.S would provoque endless hilarity. 
[[note in left margin in red]] [[underlined in red]] Swinburne [[/underlined in red]]
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At 3 P.M. Mr. [[underlined in red]] Swinburne [[/underlined in red]] came to call at the hotel. That man has a fine head! - Altho' well in the seventies he has not changed since I saw him last and looks much younger than his age. I read in the paper that the treasure[[strikethrough]] so o [[/strikethrough]] saving ship Artiglio, which has just succeeded in removing part of the Gold Bullion of the wrecked steamer Egypt, got the initial advice how to do it from [[underlined in red]] Swinburne. [[/strikethrough]] On interrogating him on this subject
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[[left margin in red]] Swinburne [[/left margin in red]]
he was modest as usually. But in the conversation he told me that some one approached him on the subject for advice. He was told that the S. S. Egypt [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] ^[[was]] sunk somewhat quite a distance from the coast and that nobody knew the ^[[exact]] location, but the waters were known to be very deep. So in interrogating he found that shortly before the sinking the ship had been in radio communication with a land station. This he verified fortunately by their radio direction finder they [[strikethrough]] know [[/strikethrough]] still new the direction. The question was then to find out whether any other radio stations had been in connection. He found out another, and by establishing the point where the two lines crossed he felt sure of the position
[[note in left margin in red]] Sunken ship treasure [[/note in left margin in red]]
Divers operating there, then located the wreck just at this point in about 400 feet depth. At this depth water pressure become so intense that work becomes very difficult. Even blasting with dynamite does not permit scattering. [[strikethrough]] So he advised to [[/strikethrough]] and the explosive area is very limited. So he advised cutting thru at long lines by fastening the explosive cartridges close to the steel, thus cutting off sections along lines of [[strikethrough]] action [[/strikethrough]] explosive action which performed work somewhat as the oxyhydrogen torch cuts thru steel plates. He also advised a system of control, by means of a multiplicity of electric wires, commanding motion. This however was superceded by telephone connection etc.