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[[strikethrough] Saturday April 15th Sunday [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] Monday April 16th [[/underlined]]

We left our Virgin Gorda anchorage [[?]] a.m. heading for Tortola but had a brief halt and a precarious landing near N.W. end of V. Gorda to examine some fantastic rock formations and caves.  Hope the pictures Al Smith took prove up.  I did not realize what we should see and so did not have my camera along, darn it;  huge boulders as big as this schooner were stacked up one on the other, in such fashion that large caves were formed under and between them.  The force which threw such immense granite "boulders" (truly gigantic ones) together in such a bizarre jumble is beyond comprehension.  All I have from the visit ashore is a few rock samples for Geology & Foshagi.  I do want to learn more about the geology of this id. if it has ever been worked out.

We arrived at Roadtown, Tortola, shortly after 2 p.m. and went ashore to buy some wooden boxes, for packing

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resident & we called on him;  it so he happened that he also sold Lemon soda, cold (from kerosene refrigerator I suppose).  The houses in Coddrington, are not crowded, are substation, well roofed and painted all thing unusal when one [[strikethrough]] see [[/strikethrough]] compares place with other native settlements, or native parts of towns in the islands we hav visited.  Natives also are better dressed than most place & seem to have great deal of pride.  Seem more prosperous, but when you ask about cash crops peanuts, cotton, pigeon-peas;  but from all you hear they are prosperous because they are smugglers bet. ids and St. Bartholomew, a free port where every thing is cheaper, & reselling it at a profit to them [[strikethrough]] selves [[/strikethrough]] elsewhere but thats more trading than smuggling.  [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] trades people/peddlers.  But a guess there are a lot of local laws reguarding imports.  Such taxes are legit & [[strikethrough]] is [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] and should not be evaded, & they are its high [[strikethrough]] and somebody [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] but a real stop to it.  Man had radio, short wave & could practically here world around.