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Mar. 21 - 10:00 am Lv. Castries, Backtracked weather sunny/sunny after heavy showers
11:a.m. Arr. Marigot Lagoon - tied up to palm trees on shore.
2:30 p.m Lft Marigot Lagoon weather partly clody aftershowers
4:30 p.m. Arr. Pigeon Id. weather sunny.

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In Castries.  He had been to Cocos Id with an English and Canadian Treasure hunting expedition.  Shacks we saw there on one of the early Hancock expeditions were some he and his party had built.  His home is about the most beautiful in the ids I would say, not having seen any others high up in the highest hill some 650 - 700 feet above the sea, large landscaped grounds with many flowers and an unsurpassed view of harbor and sea beyond.

[[underlined]] March 21 [[/underlined]]  We take off from Castries at 10.00 a.m. after Capt completed last minute purchases ashore.  This a.m. Fenner finished up last of alcohol changing and condensing of jar contents freed 16 quarts, our greatest shortage now is vials

Note to be added Bequia.  As Bredin and I were returning to boat landing from the Caribbee Hotel two little colored girls asked us to take their pictures. We complied.  So I said, if you can write your [[?]]  did very neatly Arlette Thompson and Dawn Tannis said they were each 8 yrs old.  Use slate in school as do all the kids down here.

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Reviewed. There is no need to include [[encircled]] around the page number - this is totally extraneous & useless information to the transcription which is for research purposes. All it does is create clutter.