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Manila and when I come to China again, I suppose I shall
find no queues at all.

December 14th-18th.
On N. G. L. S. S. "Kleist" from Hong Kong to Singapore. The
best fare I have ever eaten. I am taking six meals a day--
three regular meals, and toast 7 a.m., sandwiches and tea
at 11:00, tea and cakes at 4:00. My room-mate is Judge Charles
Evans of Cincinnati. Read "Philippine Life in Town and Coun-
try"; also "Mr. Isaacs" by F. Marion Crawford, "The Arabian
Nights" and part of Harben's "Abner Daniel". Wrote article
No. 2 on the Philippines.

December 18th.
Landed at Singapore at 10 a.m., closing a most
delightful voyage. Captain's dinner and ball last night. Judge Evans and
I are making the Adelphi our headquarters in Singapore. Went
to Botanical Gardens this afternoon, and at 5:30 to service
at St. Andrews Cathedral.

December 19th.
Spent morning in inquiries about steamship, visit to Raffles
Museum and buying books. At Raffles Museum saw many interest-
ing specimens of wild life around here. There is a skeleton of
a whale 42 feet long that got stranded near here. An enormous
pen was built around him so he could not get back at high tide,
and it took him a week to die; for three days he moaned terri-
bly. A crocodile 15 feet long shot at Singapore, and an ele-
phant and a tiger shot by the Sultan of Jahore, were also in
the collection. In the afternoon did some writing.

Singapore is the most cosmopolitan place I have ever