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This is a pleasant boat -- not at all crowded -- and such nice people. English servants know how to be pleasant as well as efficient. ^ And of course I would [underlined] be given the one nearly handsome English waiter in the salon! [?] tough food -- and I'm getting used to it. The whiskey -- which is all I've tried thus far -- is like balm of Gilead -- or whatever Poe said.