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4 letterhead Cairo Nov 19, 1903 Hello Helen you all seem so near yet so far You know I'm used to good big distances.
but when I think of the endless thousands of water illegible les to Ceylon, Eucalyptus Kangeroo Paddy Grogan Land, Page -
Page, Tahiti, However I get lonesome. Mercy what a trip this has been what is left as tail of it is so monstrous long. 03308
2 But how great has been the compensation - The Crimea, the Caucasus, Russia, Siberia, Manchuria, Korea China, the straits
at Singapore, India, the Red Sea mountains of Arabia Egypt etc etc. When I left the Sargents I was weak sick weighed about
100 lbs Now I think I weigh more than when I left home I always find someone to talk glaciers sequoias to At Rangoon on the
way to India I fell in with a young tiger hunter from Korea