Viewing page 74 of 77

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

142
[[annotation in top margin in red]] Nassau [[/annotation]]
March 20. There is excellent anchorage for small yachts between Hog Island and Main Island just this side of Fort Montague. Also several small boat yards were yachts can be built or repaired or painted. See two or three schooner yachts beached so as to clean their hull.
March 21 Another beautiful day, bought sponges from Mr. Pritchard who compresses and bales them
March 22. Bright but very windy Mr. Iselin invited me and Fales to go out sailing in a hired sloop.
March 23. I hired a sloop with two men and went sailing at $1½ per hour. It is a half decked small boat with
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
143
[[annotation in top margin in red]] Nassau [[/annotation]]
big gaf sail and very solid rudder which presses hard while sailing before the wind 
A long chat with Mr and Mrs Iselin about the war and new conditions which have arisen. She seems to be a well informed woman. I guess both must be in the seventies; quiet and reserved very pleasant people. Everything on the Island seems very expensive specially at the hotel. A cocktail or a punch, 50 cents, a bottle of Ale 60¢ and everything seems to be in same proportion 
During the war prices doubled due partly to war partly to depreciation of English Money, which however kept here at the rate of 1 shilling = 25 cents. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] The people in retail store bothering little about