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the place up for sale by Previews, Inc. for £65,000 English pounds sterling.  Have I mentioned this before I do not have time to read back and see.  Place has possibilities for retirement and a vegetative existence, might be made in a measure self supporting, but its so terribly far from every where, market for products included;  and in the height of the dry season has only rain water (from roofs) and a brackish water well which is only fresh in the wet season.  Bredin said he's looking it over for a friend.  The view, the climate, the sea, and the sense of possession are intriguing, but the responsibility is something else again.  You would have between [[strikethrough]] 200 [[/strikethrough]] 100 and 200 colored tenants of the village dependent on you.  They go with the land, brow much of their own food, cultivate your crops and pay $6.00 (B.W.I.) a year rent;  houses need repair - carpenter gets $2.00 a day to work on them so you can see why so little is done;  every thing used and useful other than food crops and cattle, has to be brought in.  Place is dry enough to be good for turkey raising, but here again for what market.

We talked about collecting & seining, and Mr. Mangot (maingo) said