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Mar. 22
11:15 a.m. Lv. Pigeon Id.  Sunny
5:00 p.m. Arr. Fort de France, Martinique.

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cottages had mosquito nets over beds.  Nearby on a steep to hill top was an old French fort, here Bredin found an old French army button.  

[[symbol: right arrow]] [[underlined]] March 22 [[/underlined]] = seine haul

Before the place is a long easy sand beach on which the natives from the next (and nearby) island come to seine each early morning beginning at daybreak bet 5-6 a.m.  The seine is dropped way out in bay bet. ids and hauled to shore by long lines.  Takes a couple of hours.  The men pull in one end the women the other, but the catch was most disappointing for 50 or 60 natives scarcely a bushel basket of small fish.  Looks as though with their frequent hauling (every day) they've cleaned place out.  Or was the cause of the poor haul something else again.  As luck would have it we turned up at a time that the natives said no such a phenomenon had ever been seen before.  When we got ashore at 6:15 +/- we found a long reddish winrow of small red crustaceans all along the beach, larval crabs in megalops stage they were;  [[?watch]] too was teeming with them almost one to every [[strikethrough]] square [[/strikethrough]] cubic inch of water.  We also purchase representative fish from the natives for 

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