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After lunch we prepared to go at least part way up the trail to Soufrière. When we tried to start the car (Ford, exchanged yesterday by the owner for the Citroën) however, the battery was dead. After much stewing about, we got enough help to push it out onto the hill so we could start it by coasting. We went down through St. Claude and turned sharply back to the left up hill.
We parked on a slope, facing down, near a signpost pointing two ways: Aux Bains Jaunes and au Paranass. We followed the latter for about two kilometers, only to find it the wrong one. The other climbs very steeply for about a kilometer, with houses occasionally. Then it is moderately steep as far as we went,--about four kilometers. I think this could all be called rain-forest. It certainly never gets dry, even at the surface of the ground. In places the trail was paved with cobblestones over a marshy area. Good water was found about halfway up where the trail crosses a creek. Where we stopped is some sort of a marker with an inscription concerning "marines" and a swimming pool with a private bathhouse belonging to a club of "montagnards."
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[[image - hand-drawn map of islands, with locations noted as follows.]]
GUADELOUPE
Basse-Terre 
[[circled numbers (Stations?) connected by red lines]] 69 - 85
 
GRANDE TERRE
Pointe-a-Pitre
[[circled numbers (Stations?) connected by red lines]] 86-91

MARIE GALANTE
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