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Many Portugese here, also Porto-Ricans imported lately for sugar estates. Road to Punch Bowl, an old extinct crater, very dry heat, hot but not unpleasant. Big Cacti everywhere here and volcanic rock and red soil. Portugese live here, small farms. [[strikethrough]] Dri [[/strikethrough]] Saw many ripe prickly pears on cacti. Wanted to pick one. Driver warns me that they have small pricks. Wanted to try one and made driver stop. but he was after me warning me. I had already one. Cutting off peel on the plant with my knife and [[strikethrough]] not touching [[/strikethrough]] cutting directly into the ^[[dark]] red meat of the fruit without touching with my hands trying to escape thus the fine needles. Driver advised me to wipe off carefully knife which I did, then tasted the sweet dark red meat containing many seeds. Somehow or another
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some minute invisible needles had entered and soon pricked my tonge very unpleasantly. Could not remove them.- Too small. Driver tells me the best way is to scrape the tongue with a knife
Today after 24 hours I still feel some of the pricky point which are lodged in my tongue! Fine view on town below. Drove thru public park in which saw men mostly Porto Ricans [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in white cotton clothes and white sailor hat with broad blue stripes. Looks like english fancy college suits. They are weeding and watering the lawn and roads in an easy going fashion. Some of them are simply [[strikethrough]] lying [[/strikethrough]] stretched out in shadow of trees. Am told they are [[black underline]] prisoners [[/black underline]] doing "hard labor!" No guards around nor do I notice anybody to superintend them. See everywhere inscriptions in Kanaka as a
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