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Transcription
Before he served his guests and finally to quit his
room. I in eleven before one leave the house,
Mr. White and I then start out for the
cliff. On the way we collect numerous plants
but find the flowering season almost at end. On the
way to the cliff we get our first estimation of distances.
It looks as if almost at hand and yet then a
day's home walk. As we got closer do behold
what one regarded an sedimentary shore to be cry-
stalline order, The entire cliff is so and the Flesh
folds are not coal on whole but dark crystalline
banks of which we have several samples. We
return to the village at 2.30 P.M.
Dinner is announced at 3 P.M. and being
out vegetable soup. The vegetables are asparagus from
Denmark and canned game run in Denmark by
Mrs. Hantgen. With the soup is served claret wine.
The next course is a chopped meat made in balls.
Blue berries or native crowberries and native
additions going with the meat. Madeira wine was
also served. Cheese is again at hand. After
dinner we go to the governors office where coffee
and [illegible] are served.
After this I pursue my plants and pack them.