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Mar. 28
8.00 a.m. Lv. Woodbridge Bay, Dominica.  Light showers - practically first of stay in Dominica.
9:15 a.m.  Anchored off Layou River, too rough to land.
12:30  dredge hauls from ship Prince Rupert Bay
1:15  Anchored Prince Rupert Bay.  Sunny

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Wednesday March 28.

Left in a.m. for the Layou "river" on way to Portsmouth (Dominica) where we hoped to spend half a day.  However there was too much surf over river bar & over beaches for us to get ashore so we went on to Portsmouth where we arrived at ––  Capt. went ashore of clearance, coil of rope, and to phone local hospital regarding Schistosomiasis in river by town here.  Again surf prevented entering river when we wanted to use our seine so the Capt, Fenner & I went dredging, and later he went diving to net us a few interesting things including an orinoid, but we only got the one & some coral sponges, and a swimming crab.  The diving was more productive as regards crustacea.  Were busy till dark getting collections bedded down, with some finer sorting left till next day.  After supper at which we had cooks very fine corn muffins, chicken, & apple pie for desert, the Mollyauk [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] one of the other Nicholson charter boats pulled in from the north & the folks aboard Mr. & Mrs Marriot, and another couple came over with Rodney Nicholson who Captains the Mollyauk and 4 of their crew who make up a sort of orchestra.  They