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sympathetic type & makes conversation with everyone even our third class deck passengers consisting of Burmese families.  He talk [[sic]] to those women who are quite comly [[sic]] & plays with their babies & uses his half dozen words of Burmese in talking to them. He informed that the Italians divided the world into two classes of people, the sympathetic & the apathetic which division he considered [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] quite essential & fundamental. The Flotilla Company is a scotch affair & all the officers on the boats & shore offices as well are scotch