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3 Leaving Vladivostok could hardly walk,- was poisoned with illegible in the Crimea, again in Thanchuria but managed to
keep eyes open illegible nd erect most of time being hard to kill or hold down although? weighing only about 115 pounds. On
the sea soon got well weighed more than ever in the last ten years. At Shanghai left my companions Prof Sargent his son Robinson,
on the 10th of Sep. they returning home soon after visiting Pekin, while I bought a map of the world set out alone on a genuine
whole hearted enthusiastic trip - now far I wandered hard I worked gazed enjoyed worshipped From Shanghai I went to India
by Hong Kong, Singapore Rangoon to Calcutta - thence into the Himalaya by Darjeeling, - thence back to Calcutta thence to
Benares, L illegible Know, Ca illegible pore, Agra, Delhi, into the Himalaya again by Simla, thence to Bombay Egypt up the
Nile etc. Was unable to reach the Cedars of Lebanon on