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the

HongKong Hotel on the 31st

on the 31st of July

he was behaving

last about 9 am. as he was

fin a very extravagant

we

manner. When

I went to his room he

about the room

was

dancing

perfectly naked, talking

about a telegram which he said was

urgently necessary

should be forwarded

to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

home. Extracts of this

read which was

His behaviour was

at

telegram he

dreadful

nonsense.

very extravagant. he

embraced the Hotel Keeper Mr Dorabjee Nowrojee Kissing him on both cheeks __

calling him his Aryan brother. I

saw him

again

in the

afternoon

he

was then dressed, and quieter but his

conversation ran on his visits to the

Mormans and the Free Lovers of Oneida

Creek when he was in America.

Excepting

there

his extravagant behaviour

were no

symptoms of disease, he remained at the Hotel this night and. slept well for about eight hours. His memory was good also his general health, he appeared to be conscious of

behaviour and tried

his

extravagant

to explain it away as owing to his having been absent from decent society I tried to pursuade him to

so

long.

take up his quarters at the leivil Hospital but as he could not be pursuaded and the Hotel Proprietor objected to his remaining I requested Mr. Creagh Acting Superintendent of

mr

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