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all the while. The President of the province and 

 his suite tried to come off to a State luncheon on 

 board on Sunday ; but the launch, being rather 

 heavily laden, behaved worse than usual, and some 

 green seas stove in the President's hat and made 

 him wetter than he had probably ever been in his 

 life ; so after one or two rollers, he turned back ; 

 and indeed he was wise to do so, for I don't see how 

 he could have got on board. . . . Being fully con- 

 vinced that the world will not continue to go 

 round unless I pay it personal attention, I must 

 run away to my work.' 



