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seems to tell you in their silent voice: [[red underlined]] "We are here to guide you should you desire to proceed on your journey." [[/red underlined]] These new [[red underlined]] eclipse light buoys. [[/red underlined]] - of steel made [[red underlined]] navigation unusually [[/red underlined]] easy day and night. However we meet only a few isolated tows. Undoubdetly the new possibilities of this water route are not yet fully appreciated but just this makes [[red underlined]] Yachting [[/red underlined]] more pleasant than if these waters were crowded with traffic.
I [[red underlined]] wanted to play a joke on Townsend [[/red underlined]] and have not warned him against [[red underlined]] Hendricks snoring. [[/red underined]] I went to sleep on a cot in cock-pit where I could not hear [[red underlined]] Hendrick's [[strikethrough]] sno [[/strikethrough]] fearful blasts. [[/red underlined]] Next morning I found [[red underlined]] Townsend sleeping on the roof of the cabin. [[/red underlined]] His discovery had led him to
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precipitate retreat with his mattress under his arm. We all laughed and laughed about the joke every body cheerful and joyful and [[red underlined]] all feeling like school boys. [[/red underlined]]
Aug 21. At 6 A.M left, and at noon arrived at [[red underlined]] Whitehall. [[/red underlined]] - bought supplies and about 1 P.M proceeded further up [[red underlined]] Lake Champlain. [[/red underlined]] and anchored near Vermont Shore near [[red underlined]] Plumies [[/underlined]] point. Good swimming before supper.
Aug 22. Excellent night, cool delicious. No [[red underlined]] snoring [[/red underlined]] interferes with any of us since our new [[red underlined]] distribution of sleeping [[/red underlined]] quarters 
^ [[Hendrick in middle cockpit I in rear cabin]] Weighed anchor about 10 A.M and proceeded to [[strikethrough]] Newport [[/strikethrough]] [[red underlined]] Westport. [[/red underlined]] Swimming. - Towards evening anchored near wooded rocky shore but got alarmed during night [[strikethrough]] everybod[[/strikethrough]] on account of thunderstorm and black clouds. Everybody clearing deck and lifting anchor to

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