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United Fruit Company
Steamship Service
ON BOARD

Friday 2 May '19

Dear Doris: 

Having discovered what day it is, I can now repose in a deck chair & start a letter. We have had a very good trip with a fair breeze most of the time. We are somewhere off Florida now, & will pass thru between some of the Bahama Islands (Cat I. & San Salvador) tonight & tomorrow. Sunday morning or

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noon we shall reach Santiago, but as no work is likely to be done on the cargo until Monday we shall not get away until Monday or Tuesday. It is 2 or 3 days more to Puerto Barrios. We are all well & I am feeling fine. No cases of seasickness among us, but I saw a meal served overboard from the top deck by somebody this morning. I wish you could be along to get the benefit of the sea & air. 
 
Saturday 11:30 AM
We came in sight of San Salvador where Columbus landed,