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its lighthouse which gave one flash every three seconds. Nasty winds. After awhile got to the lighthouse but found to our astonishment it did not occupy position it should and was close to the shore. So we kept floating around till daybreak a violent sea blowing, complicated by the fact that our engine gives out several times on account of defective insulation of wires. 
Finally we find we are near a splendid little harbor called [[underlined in red]] Oyster Creek [[/underlined in red]] hardly marked on the chart and not even mentioned in Pilot Guide for inland course, and Johnson tells me it is [[underlined in red]] much better than Roanoke Marshes Light. [[/underlined in red]] 
I notice several schooners anchored in the many windings of the creek. Also
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a small steamer that plies between here and Elizabeth City. - We tied up at the rather primitive but entirely satisfactory wooden dock. 
Fried eggs and bacon restore our spirits as well as our stomach then. I went on my knees and labored hard over plugs and wiring and every detail of engine until I imagined everything was all right again and we were not going to be confronted in this stormy weather with an uncertain engine. Not a living soul around that place - Steamer tied on wharf, door open but nobody inside.
Scarcely had we left our comfortable shelter that we realized we were in a [[strikethrough]] fo [[/strikethrough]] good size gale [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] blowing behind, and so hard that it would have been risky to try to return, so we had to go on, and this kept on 

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Instructions say to use the word 'underlined' in brackets when words are underlined in text. Seems appropriate because indicates past tense.