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148 Town quiet and makes good appearance. Bought [[red underline]] 25 cents [[\red underline]] worth of big fresh [[red underline]] prawns [[\red underline]] and boiled them for supper while Albert was visiting the town. A [[red underline]] big green sea turtle on deck of one of the fisher boats among [[\red underline]] the fish. Just brought in. I notice a "dealer in [[red underline]] turtle eggs". [[\red underline]] This specialty indicates new zone. [[red underline]] Sugar cane [[\red underline]] for sale in the shops. [[red underline]] Two canes [[\red underline]] for [[red underline]] five cents. [[\red underline]] People here [[red underline]] use no sugar. [[\red underline]] They grind their cane between rollers and evaporate the juice for [[red underline]] molasses [[\red underline]] not for sugar. There was a slight drip of gasoline on the carburettor and the odor thereof [[end page]] [[start page]] 149 kept me awake most of the night. Nov 16 Bright sunny weather but rather cool westerly winds. Put in 55 gallons [[red underline]] gasoline at 25 cents [[\red underline]] a gallon. Then left about 9 A.M. [[strikethrough]] Bright su [[/strikethrough]] No trouble in finding our way. Crossed [[red underline]] St. John's River [[\red underline]] at about noon then engaged in a long straight canal across a forest of large pines, [[red underline]] large palmettos, live oak, very picturesque. [[\red underline]] So much so that I [[red underline]] concluded to tie up along the bank [[\red underline]] of this canal, which is some fourteen miles long and cuts thru this wild uninhabited forest. [[red underline]] Cygnet [[\red underline]] looks extremely [[red underline]] picturesque [[\red underline]] and pretty along this natural setting with her bright hull and brass and