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Some good card games with young ladies tonight,
including new game (to me)"I doubt it."

February 11th

Reached Aden early in the morning but did not land. A great
nuber and great variety of traders, mostly black Africans,
came in boats, with Ostrich plumes, eggs, beads, horns, ti-
ger or leopard skins, etc. What we have been able to see of Ara-
bia today is an utterly barren desert.

More games tonight by a party of younger folk. The
young ladies aboard are quite charming.

February 12th.

Mr. Bachelor of Coldwater, Mich., preached. Sea still smooth,
good food; and a pleasant party aboard. The steward of the
shop has the happy faculty of remembering everybody's name -- a
trait which adds so largely to his popularity that I plan to
try cultivating it myself.

My room-mate is Mr. Prillwits, a German born in Rus-
sia. He is an ex-officer in the German Army and was wounded in
fighting natives in Africa.

February 13th.

Weather surprisingly rough, but I really enjoyed the day
best of the entire voyage. The waves broke in great sheets
of spray like a snowstorm. Our fancy dress ball, at which I
had planned to appear as a Hindoo, was called off. We are well
in the Red Sea and Mecca is to out right over in Arabia.

One of the little girls I liked most aboard speaks
English, German and Japanese--at nine years old! Lillie Abegg
of Hamburg.