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6 2 your soul has always soared high in a clean, healthy sky. And how blest you have been with wife children. Strange that
none of the children has yet set foot in California, though you have been so great a traveler. I have been away more than
a year on a long, crooked trip around the world have seen a little of many countries - The park gardens ( ) art galleries
of Europe - broad, fertile Russia - the Crimea, ( ) grand forests glaciers ( ) snowy peaks of the Caucasus; The wide, billowy,
densely forested Ural mountains, the vast, fertile levels, plains woods of Siberia; beautiful Manchuria with its charming
hills dales l illegible , richly wooded mountains, endless wheat millet fields great rivers plains;- Picturesque Japan - the
mountainous island-dotted coast of China; the loftiest ice laden summits of the Himalaya the Deodar forests rivers, the swarming
cities at their feet temples, etc.; Old Egypt its one green valley stretching