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32 [[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] 1st Florida cruise [[/vertical annotation]] Soldiers Club - then tired to bed. Oct 18. Automobile drive to [[red underline]] Hampton Institute [[/red underline]] for Negroes and Indians Very interesting.- Good work for betterment of colored people, excellent impression. Afternoon automobile drive to Newport News where visited [[red underline]] Curtiss Aviation School. [[/red underline]] I notice his machines [[red underline]] are now much better constructed and do not look so clumsy of construction as formerly. [[/red underline]] Then over ferry to Norfolk. Strong wind blowing. [[red underline]] Hurricane signals [[/red underline]] displayed. Tropical [[red underline]] storm coming. [[/red underline]] Evening when we returned by [[strikethrough]] boat it [[/strikethrough]] boat which makes the trip to old Point, the [[end page]] [[start page]] 33 boat creaked and rolled fearfully and landing was difficult. By this time [[red underline]] violent rain and wind. [[/red underline]] Oct 19. Storm raging unabated. Storm signals still hoisted, but [[red underline]] hurricane struck Alabama [[/red underline]] we only have outside area of it, but it is wild enough [[strikethrough]] Most of [[/strikethrough]] This morning [[red underline]] talked to Johnson in such a way that there should be no mistake as to my intentions, [[/red underline]] should he repeat his churlish ways. Spent most of day indoors with [[red underline]] Celine, [[/red underline]] then afternoon it cleared somewhat and ceased raining so we went for a stroll along shore of [[red underline]] Fortress Monroe. Were astonished how we had access to siege guns with nobody [[strikethrough]] to watch [[/strikethrough]] apparently to watch us. [[/red underline]] No sentry of