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[[overwritten]] 45 [[/overwritten]] 44/ [[vertical note left margin in red]] Difference in Negro races [[/vertical note left margin in red]] [[underlined in red]] his likes and preferences in his [[strikethrough]] rela [[/strikethrough]] sexual relations [[/underlined in red]] with various women; all this eagerly listened to and discussed by the ^[[Negro]] women waiters around him and his white head water While this was going [[strikethrough]] one in [[/strikethrough]] one while [[underlined in red]] a tall, thin West Indian English speaking nigger [[/underlined in red]] came in (probably from the West Indies or other British possessions. He [[underlined in red]] looked serious [[/underlined in red]] not a smile, and was accompanied by a little sallow negro-woman probably his wife or [[underlined in red]] his daughter. [[/underlined in red]] After eating his sandwich and a cup of coffee, they left. Their whole behavior and talk showed [[underlined in red]] the wide difference between the influence of French and British ways [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] on colored races. [[/underlined in red]] Just after the British nigger had left came on a salesman trying to sell some novelty to the group of waiters and waitresses. This novelty seemed to strike suddenly their whole attention and desire to buy. It was a [[underlined in red]] cigar lighter [[/underlined in red]] in the shape of a little metal man-statuette, filled with benzol and which on touching a button, set forth a little flame. But this one was so arranged that the little flame [[underlined in red]] was ejected from a considerably enlarged male organ! [[strikethrough]] Hence its [[/strikethrough]] Parisian life! [[vertical note left margin in red]] Paris Exhibition [[/vertical note left margin in red]] Oversexed [[/underlined in red]] next to the Russian exhibit. The [[underlined in red]] German exhibit was most visited and strikingly well conceived. [[/underlined in red]] Netherland Italy and particularly Switzerland had also striking exhibits. [[underlined in red]] Belgium also, specially with its African-Congo exhibition. [[/underlined in red]] British exhibit was rather limited [[end page]] [[start page]] [[overwritten]] 48 [[/overwritten]] 45/ [[left margin vertical in red]] Stauss [[/left margin vertical in red]] Had wired to [[red underlined]] Stauss [[/red underlined]] to ask him that unless there was anything of immediate importance [[red underlined]] I would prefer to postpone my visit to Berlin. [[/red underlined]] I did so, because from George and Celine I had heard how they struck him in the [[strikethrough]] wro [[/strikethrough]] wrong time, when he and his wife were just moving into their new habitation and he had endless business engagements which took up all [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] his time. So I was glad to get news from him that now sees no immediate need for me coming. - Nothing urgent Hurrah! Feel very happy so shall be able to dispose better of my time and [[red underlined]] not have to go to Germany. [[/red underlined]] [[underlined]] June 20 [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] 19 [[/strikethrough]] (Sunday) Most of day at [[red underlined]] Exposition [[/red underlined]] which is crowded with visitors. While looking at the vicious bone and iron spears of those African Congo negros of the Belgian Congo, the thought repeated itself to me that instead of looking at all this thru glass windows, my own bones might now be bleaching in that African Congo, instead of being at the top of my happy existence and honors. After my graduation X ^[[at the University of Ghent]] I prepared myself to go to the Congo as part of one of the Belgian scientific expeditions organised under [[red underlined]] King Leopold [[/red underlined]] II.. [[left margin red underlined]] Congo [[/left margin red underlined]] But instead I won the the Gold Medal as [[underlined]] Laureate [[/underlined]] of those of who had obtained their Doctor's degree in competition of the Belgian Universities and which eventually permitted me to visit the U.S. and to marry Celine - What a luck! and what probable fate in Africa did I thus escape!?
