I will go on shore and post this there.

With all love.

DICK.
Deal's Central Hotel, East London.
February 20th, 1900.
DEAR MOTHER: We are stopping at every port now, as though the Scot were a ferry boat.

We came over the side to get here in baskets with a neat door in the side and were bumped to the deck of the tender in all untenderness.
This is more like Africa than any place I have seen.

The cactus and palms abound and the Kaffirs wear brass anklets and bracelets.