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work impossible); and I am obliged
to become a Japanese citizen
in order to do what is right
by my own people. I can
live, at the present rate of
exchange, by self-denial
of a sort not stimulating
to my profession, on about
$600 to $700 a year.
This I cannot get from
the Atlantic. Therefore,
to make ends meet I think
it advisable that I should
accept the newspaper syndicates'
offer of $1,200 for the
letters from the tropics
south of here. With time
and patience I suppose I