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The heat here is not so intense as I had anticipated. I think that at Washington D.C. it was quite as warm. I was so burdened with my heavy wool suit that I sent it home.

 My stay in Washington

was pleasant and as a guest of Anita Newcomb McGee I fared royally, Our fare on the "Resolute" has been par excellence, and we shall think of it when we eat our "hard tack". This ship "Resolute" carried to New York 550 Spanish prisoners, and we have on board one prisoner, a man boarded the "Resolute", as one of the Hospital Corps, but when he was requested to show his credentials he failed to produce them,