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[[stamped page number]] 98 [[end stamp]] Trinidad 32.

I had skidded but I went back to see and it wasn't so. I figured out later that the only possible cause was this: When the side car is on, one doesn't need to balance and a lean to the left, even on the left side of the road, is counteracted by turning the handlebars, but solo this results in overbalancing and if not reversed would be a flat fall; I must have forgotten for a moment and leaned and the reaction swung me to the side of the road so fast that I was on the bumpy shoulder before I woke up. At that speed I didn't even have time to think about what to do, but only wondered whether I would be hurt whether the motor be wrecked. With help of three others (there were twenty people there before long) I got the motor, up to the road, and found it to be unhurt. I discovered later that I had torn the shoulder of my raincoat, but I had only some bruises on my legs.
Had planned to stop at a pasture near there, but didn't feel like it. So got home early. Found that I had dented the right gas tank with my knee; have a large sore bruise.
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[[image: boxed map of Trinidad, positioned sideways on page, with head toward margin. Red lines indicate roads (?). Place names entered as follows]]
Bocas del dragon
Port of Spain
Sangre Grande
San Fernando
Rio Claro
Siparia
Boco de la Sierpe

[[other locations, unnamed, marked as numbers in circles (Station ?), as follows]]
92 - 130
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