170 Friday Dec. 10 I was up at about my usual time and had tea on deck and breakfast later. Loafed on deck and looked at the white sanded tracked islands and longed to explore them: also spent some time looking over English picture papers. Soon after noon we sailed Jolo and after medical inspection we got up to dock at 3 p.m. Work arbor after tiffin and hunted up a barber. Met, Major Chapman & Capt. Ritts, shipper of the Gilberts: tried to get passage to Manila on her but failed, so Major Chapman agreed to send me on the Transport on Monday. Went aboard the Delago and packed up my things & with them to the Jolo Hotel and then walk and called on the Fanes and stayed for dinner and spent the whole evening: a most hospitable couple. I went back to the hotel at about 10.30, a most un- inviting place run by an Austrian lion woman, and then to bed,