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[[stamped page number]] 32 [[/stamp]] St. Thomas 6, final.
St. Kitts 1, final.
St. Croix 1, final.
Antigua, 1.

[[left margin note]] X-22-35 [[/margin note]] Went to Furness Line Agent to get tickets. Had to argue hard to persuade him to give us round-trip tickets (10% discount). These take us to Guadeloupe and return with any stopovers we wish.
Paid our bill at the hotel and went aboard the R.M.S. Nerissa in time for lunch. We had a 
[[left margin note, written in black ink]] [[underlined]] Photo #32 [[/underlined]] #33, #34 [[/margin note]] fine view of the island from outside the harbour and I took a picture of St. Thomas and one of St. Croix from about midway between them. At 4 P.M. we reached Fredericks-sted at the western end of the island ^[[of St. Croix]], and I took a photograph looking north from the harbour to show the volcanic cones and lava flows. In the dining saloon we had a private table with a very nice steward. The table was #6, and the steward served also #26 ^[[(?)]]. We sailed from St. Croix after dark, with a very calm sea.
[[left margin note]] X-23-35 [[/margin note]] Arrived at St. Kitts early in the morning and sailed at noon. I think I took two ^[[(?)]] pictures while in this vicinity. At 4[[underlined superscript]]30[[/superscript]] P.M. we arrived at Antigua, which appears to have a splendid harbour. However, it was apparently too shallow to permit us to go closer to the town than about 1 1/2 miles. I went ashore and hired a car to do an errand or two. First to the Colonial Secretary's office for mail (two letters were waiting, and a caretaker found them for me!),
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Antigua 2, final.
Guadeloupe 1. [[stamped page number, upper right]] 33 [[/stamp]]

and then to leave forwarding addresses at the Agents for Furness, American Caribbean, and Canadian National s.s. cos. I then walked through the town, up around the football field, past the Colonial Secretary's office and the cathedral; and had to wait nearly an hour for the return boat. On the trip from St. Kitts to Antigua we passed an island on the starboard. This was Montserrat, and we went there from Antigua, arriving at midnight and sailing at 2 A.M. Needless to say, we weren't up to see it.
[[left margin note]] X-24-35 [[/margin note]]  Anchored off Basse-Terre, on the southwest coast of Guadeloupe about 7 A.M. This side of the island is very steep and abrupt, without any coastal plain. I took a picture of the southwest corner just as we rounded it on the way to Pointe-a-Pitre. We arrived at the latter about 11 A.M. but did not go up to the dock. We went ashore in a rowboat (1 sh. each and 2 sh. for bags), went to the Custom's House where we were required to open [[underlined]] two [[/underlined]] of our eight bags! Then we had to hire a boy to take our baggage to the Grand Hotel des Antilles ($1.00). We got a room and had lunch, and then started out to do some errands. I went to the Royal Bank of Canada to get local money and changed $100.00 at the rate of 15 francs to the dollar. Then I 
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