November 16, 1917 The sea was moderate with a misty rain most of the day, but the air feels warmer than at Yokohama. The steamer has done some pitching and a few poeple are sea-sick mildly. November 17, 1917 The weather was overcast with misty rain at intervals and fair sized swells running. One of the passengers of interest to me is Mr. H. Williams, a mining engineer and expert who has traveled much in Japan and some in Korea where he visited the Diamond mountains which he says are very rough and forested and inhabited by bear, tigers and deer. He knows the Misas Gereas country of Brazil, much of which he says is a desert. Other passengers are Mott and Griffin, chairmen of committees and leaders generally. Mott is a gray-haired child of N.Y. but really a tea buyer in Formosa (Taiwan) and Griff is a N.Y. shoe salesman with the manners and airs of a pouter pigeon, but a good fellow when his little bluff is called. Another voyager is Lenty who has the map of Ireland on his face and an overfed appearance. He is an American dentist of 9 years residence in the sands of Alexandria, but now returning to the USA for residence.