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weather After some hesitation at [[red underline]] Featherbed Shoals [[/red underline]] proceeded nicely. Took on excellent swim in [[red underline]] Blackwater [[/red underline]] sound water nicely warm then proceeded thru [[red underline]] Tarpon Basin [[/red underline]] into next Sound where decided to anchor far from shore. so as to avoid [[red underline]] mosquitoes [[/red underline]] But scarcely was sun set that we heard the singing which soon changed to a mosquito chorus. In the cabin it was worse so I decided to sleep on deck Put on my rubber boots, [[red underline]] [[?]] coat [[/red underline]] put two [[red underline]] towels around my head [[/red underline]] and a sailor's hat. Nevertheless they found
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some opening thru which to sting. Finally [[red underline]] wrapped myself [[/red underline]] in a [[red underline]] white sheet [[/red underline]] stretching [[strikethrough]] rame [[/strikethrough]] it over my hat and thus [[red underline]] managed to sleep more or less. [[/red underline]]
At sun break both of us felt tired and disgusted and decided to leave our anchorage and begin the return trip. After leaving Tarpon Basin and entering creek which leads to Blackwater sound saw several [[red underline]] big shark [[/red underline]] then in waiting for R.R. Bridge at Jewfish Station [[strikethrough]] Alback and [[/strikethrough]] we saw a [[red underline]] huge shark [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]]with a sawbone [[/red underline]] Must have been about [[red underline]] 15 feet [[/red underline]] I saw 3 or 4 small fish swim above him as if to warn him and spike him After passing thru bridge