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The shops are large and well stocked but many of them are now closed because of the [[?levelness]]

(28)  In the morning we visited the Manager of the railroad regarding our luggage & the delay necessary at a tunnel cave in begin [[?Faakay]].  The head of the government in Tonkin, the charge of Polical Affairs, gave us every courtsey & privilege with permission to take areas anywhere in the country.  The Industrial museum near the station is a fine exhibit [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]]in a beautiful building.  At the Geological department we met Dr. Mar[[strikethrough]]q[[/strikethrough]]vay who showed us thru the building & the museum.  They have a splendid lot of geologic maps of Tonkin.  There is here the beginning of a Zoological museum, a few snakes & lizards & some skulls of mammals etc.  In the afternoon we called on a forester who

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unsure whether we should be making word breaks, as he frequently runs words on, which would be hard to read? 2. Better to split them I think. It's not intentional, just a symptom of writing.