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Mar. 20.  6:30 a.m. dropped anchor Soufriere, St. Lucia.
11:30 a.m.  left for Castries after showers.  Went in cab. to friend of Capt. for sulphur bath.
2:15 p.m. arr Castries, St. Lucia.

Both samples Soufrière.

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The whole island is just 6 miles long says the Coast Pilot and little over 800 feet high.  There were a surprising number of whites on the island we saw over a dozen, but a few whites among so many blacks always look so forlorn.  Bequia is pronounced "Bequey".  Other than 2 soil samples and a bottom sample in the Bay for Loeblich no collecting was done here and at 3:30 p.m we upped anchor and headed for 

Mar. 20

St. Lucia an over night run.  Sorry we had to miss St. Vincent.  We passed it in the moonlight about 3 miles off shore.  Nicholson suggested trying the electric light over the side;  stopped engines ^[[at 9 p.m.]] to do so but in the 5-10 minutes we stopped nothing noticeable happened though he thought he saw one pelagic worm.  Either we were too far from land and shoaler waters or as Fenner says didn't wait long enough for the deeper living animals to come to the surface.  From 6 p.m. on we used sails exclusively, first time during cruise and not direct in [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] till early a.m. when we went ashore to see some sulphur baths that Nicholson touted so highly.  The little bath house had two little places, concrete pits, deep enough to sit in, but only Nicholson took a bath though I did soak my knee which I'd given a twist