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[[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] 1st Florida Cruise [[/vertical annotation]]
laurel and [strikethrough]] every [[/strikethrough]] ^[[other]] wild trees around. - How calm and peaceful after all our strenuous day. I can hardly imagine that a few hours ago this perfectly quiet and immobile [[underlined in red]] Cygnet [[/underlined in red]] was tossed around in a sea like a boiling caldron which seemed to want to cook it down in the soup! And now for a real supper and to bed quite early as early as seven P.M so as to be ready for next morning. 
Oct 23. At first [[strikethrough]] dallied [[/strikethrough]] when we heard wind blowing in the [[strikethrough]] pine [[/strikethrough]] tops of nearby pine trees we were in no particular hurry to get away. So lingered over our breakfast. Young man of yesterday who showed us the way, came around with his small motor boat. He tells
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us in his singing southern way that this place is several miles away from a place called Nebraska where a few white people live that that population all around is made up of about [[underlined in red]] five negroes to one white [[/underlined in red]] man. That main product of the country is [[underlined in red]] Corn  and hogs and timber. [[/underlined in red]] That corn grows better here than almost anywhere else. Also [[underlined in red]] cotton [[/underlined in red]] growing. That the straight canal in which we are and which leads Wyesocking [[underlined in red]] has been dug in slave times, [[/underlined in red]] and the reason it is so crooked is that the line was followed of the original cow path to [[underlined in red]] Wyesocking to the [[/underlined in red]] water edge. This rather bashful chap with his blue eyes, quite good looking undoubdetly came from good original stock. His

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Wysocking Bay, North Carolina is near Cape Hatteras. Instructions say to use the word 'underlined' in brackets when words are underlined in text. Seems appropriate because indicates past tense.