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Hotel. (nothing very particular) about this hotel. Then took a stroll around the [[underlined in red]] town which has an air of its own [[/underlined]] reminding somewhat of [[underlined in red]] Kingston Jamaica, [[/underlined]] also of New [[underlined in red]] Orleans. [[/underlined]]
Palm trees, banana trees, live oaks and similar plants remind you that we are in Southern latitudes. I notice that [[underlined in red]] many old buildings are slowly falling to ruin and nobody seems to care about them Quite a number are totally abandoned. [[/underlined]] King Street is the lively street - stores and traffic being most active there. The market is another desolate looking building. [[underlined in red]] My knee hurts [[/underlined]] and makes walking painful so I engaged a motor car for two hours. Negro driver quite intelligent and well informed, says he is [[underlined in red]] graduate 
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 of College at Atlanta Ga. [[/underlined]] Many black people here, blacker than anywhere else. Half of population is black but they seem happy and well dressed and shoed. My chauffeur tells me there are quite a number of [[underlined in red]] Greeks [[/underlined]] here keeping fruit and soda stores but they are in bad reputation because they [[underlined in red]] sell clandestinely alcoholic drinks. The prohibition law is now very much enforced and many Greeks have been put in prison, [[/underlined]] some of their men who are reputed to have quite some money. [[strikethrough]] My chau [[/strikethrough]] He shows me a prosperous looking home belonging to a man who is [[underlined in red]] "doing time" [[/underlined]] now in penitentiary for same offense. In the mean time people here [[underlined in red]] seem childishly eager to get a drink of whiskey. The fact this is almost the first question which is put to my Captain, whenever we arrive somewhere. [[/underlined]] - The 

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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.