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and now the few whites who are here are all more or less connected with shipping liquor to United States. Schooners, [[strikethrough]] yachts [[/strikethrough]] connected yachts etc. all engaged in it. Every "captain" around is in some bootlegging scheme. Then there are wholesale jobbers who order the material from Europe or Canada or even the United States. Am told that when the Volstead act went into operation so much American Whiskey was shipped here that the streets were unpassable on account of all the barrels and packages which could not be stored in regular storage houses. Captain of sponger and coast trade who know the intricate channels in these Islands
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are in great demand. Shipping directly to Miami has become difficult on account of more strict supervision but they sent further North even to New York as they have the Gulf stream with them this helps them considerably To Miami They run from here over "white water" flats of from 8 to 20 feet deep and which protects them [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] from the Gulf stream until they make Gun key which is a good shelter thence they cross the Gulf stream which only makes a 40 mile run The nigger boys in the street and anybody who you ask about the [[strikethrough]] ships [[/strikethrough]] ^[[schooners]] at anchor simply tells you: that is a bootlegger. See