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7 3 between hot, tawny deserts, its stupendous monuments of auld lang syne; Balmy, palmy Ceylon, wonderful beautiful; Australia
New Zealand where people, animals, plants rocks all are strange novel to me, The gloriously beautiful Malay Archipelago, the
Philippines, etc. How I wish you had been with me This sketch, however slight, will, I hope, help you to recall some of your
own wide, round-the-world wanderings. In a camp last year near the brink of the south Yosemite Wall, just opposite the North
Dome, I asked the President if he remembered the fine prophetic send-off you gave him in introducing him to a Madison audience.
He remembered it very well seemed gladly interested.