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tweeds.  On shore there was much life on the streets, many foreigners or Europeans of both sexes being in evidence.  We reached the wharf at 3 P.M. & I took a rickshaw to the Palace Hotel where I took rooms.  The hotel has a good table & the rooms are furnished with flush closets & a good modern bath which are luxuries not found at the Astor & other hotel.  Hartmann went to the Shanghai Club of which is is a member. 
In the park the chief trees were sycamores or Plane trees and maples & I at once realized that I was out of the tropics.  One