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87 Martinez, June 18, 1904 Dear Mr Johnson. After more than a year I'm home again safe sound, rich in notes, specimens,
photographs nerve pictures. After the Crimea Caucasus, Siberia Manchuria with the Sargents my main trip began. From Shanghai
set out alone for Singapore India- Had general views of the great cities, temples etc; of the highest Himalaya mountains at
Darjeeling, of the grand Deodar forests about Simila, Left India at Bombay for the Cedars of Lebanon but failed to reach them
on account of cholera. Therefore went up the Nile as far as Assouan, had good look at old new Egypt. Thence from Port Said
went to Ceylon away to south end of world -