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or so & then return to my domicile intending to get up at 5 am but with some thoughts of missing the train & catching the next
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I rise at 5 am but do not start for 6.45 am which naturally I miss. Arriving in time for 8.30 am I am informed that I cannot travel by it so wait till 10.30 which does not go as far as wharf & costs me the expense of transportation to wharf though assured by officialdom that I need not worry.
At Folkestone I met 2 Yankee medical officers with whom I dine & visit the township of Folkestone.
Embark on Princess Victoria at 2.45 & a sailor picks up a chair from a heap & puts it down 2 ft away & expects a tip for this – usually 6d or 1/-. This is the way you are robbed in England by English people One can forgive the continental people to some extent because we are foreigners & so liable to be exploited
Arrive at Boulogne & boat enters from sea stern first as there is no room to turn in harbour without inconveniencing the traffic & perhaps the knife edged design is difficult to handle if she has not much way.
I go to Club & then go for a