A well-equipped abortorium was then visited. This consists of a suite of rooms on the first floor.

“Something’s written there,” he said. “More Japanese kyujitai?” Alders brought the light down nearer the page so they could look more closely at the smudged characters: […]

The prison was so crowded that they had to resort to double celling and then triple celling.

But round about these, in a broken curve are found the represenatives of the Low-German (Nieder-Deutsch, Netherdutch or Netherlandish) family. Along the shores of the Baltic and far inland, where German [= (Standard) High German] is established in the educated ranks, the mass of the population speak Platt-deutsch, which is nothing but a form of Dutch, not German or Hoch-deutsch.