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'Sir F[rank Swettenham] lent me two of his books to read: "Unaddressed Letters" and "Malay Sketches".[...] Excellent dinner [on board Dutch ship] with funny Dutch peas and pears with our turkey. Very early to bed and read some of "On the Face of the Waters" — it is clever though I hate it. '