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66 how the shoals look like. It is now almost [[red underline]] 3 P.M. [[/red underline]] In the rain [[red underline]] Southport [[/red underline]] looks still less attractive. Pouring rain now. It takes about one hour to run to [[red underline]] Southport. [[/red underline]] A port at entrance of [[red underline]] Cape Fear river. [[/red underline]] Channel in River well buoyed with lights. Tied up on wharf glad [[red underline]] I am though with this arduous run. [[/red underline]] [[vertical annotation in left margin]] Prohibition Time in South Carolina [[/vertical annotation]] Took in gasoline. The old man in charge [[red underline]] eagerly asks whether we have some drinks on board, and seems glad as a child that he can get a drink. [[/red underline]] Same occurred day before yesterday at life saving station. [[red underline]] Since prohibition was introduced all these people seem to be willing to give almost anything for a drink. Yesterday our pilot gave us the six partridges [[/red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 67 [[red underline]] with the expectation of a drink. This is one of the psychological factors of prohibition. [[/red underline]] In my oilskins and rubber boots went in town. Seem to be a number of fishermen here - mostly colored. Saw baskets full of [[red underline]] fresh shrimp [[/red underline]] delivered to nearby frame shack a [[strikethrough]] shr [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] shrimp cannery. [[/red underline]] Town looks very unsettled and primitive. Some beautiful old live oak trees. [[red underline]] Pomegranates [[/red underline]] indicate Southern Latitude. Would imagine town has only a few hundred inhabitants. Roads are wide but entirely soft dirt. Went to Telegraph office to notify [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] of my arrival. [[red underline]] Johnson feels better [[/red underline]] and went to look for a restaurant where he can get a steak - It keeps on raining I went to bed at 7 P.M. Sleep interrupted by violent tooting of nearby steamboat which does