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The Capt. had to buy some provisions and get some water.  We have running hot & cold water aboard and a bath tub but no shower and use quite a bit of fresh water daily.  We went as far as post office where every body but yours truly send out some mail.  I just couldn't get any ready in time and am hoping that mine, (and this) mailed out at Martinique will reach you just as soon as if it had left from Castries in St. Lucia.  As in Grenada, Bredin took us out to dinner at a hotel high above the town.* [[strikethrough]] We [[/strikethrough]] The taxi had to go into low gear several times on way up. 

*This gives crew cook & room boy a nice rest and chance to go ashore.

Got up there at seven had a beautiful view for 6-700 feet up and meat loaf (little individual loaves) 2 x 4 inches +-, made of cooked meat, tomatoes and cold slaw salad, rice, potatoes, stringbeans and strips of a kind of squash for vegetables, and 1/2 canned pear for desert with coffee afterward for those who wanted it. And a rum punch around before dinner. 

After P.O. visit Fenner and I had come back on board, (I to write), and no sooner that I had gotten settled down than the Capt. came aboard with an Englishman named [[strikethrough]] Milbaugh [[/strikethrough]] Comdr Charles Millourne, a man who had served as midshipman in British Navy with Nicholson's father, and who was now port Captain here in

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