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Seattle. He is a throat, nose and ear specialist. As crew there is [[red underline]] his wife, his brother [[/red underline]] in law and the latters wife Ketch has jib headed sails and was built in Maine. Seems staunch and well built and has 3 cyl. auxiliary gasoline engine
Then visited 5 masted schooner Robin Hood, now taking in scrap iron to sail for Philadelphia after she has managed to complete her cargo on the Island. She is one of the huge wooden ships built during the war at Seattle Wash. Hard service in France and had formerly steam power. Engine has been scrapped and masts and sail rig substituted.
Captain is a [[red underline]] Swede [[/red underline]] named
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[[red underline]] Johnson, [[/red underline]] having his family in the U.S. Says under sail can make [[red underline]] 16 knots. [[/red underline]] Owner miserly lot - Jews who begrudge him everything. Has a crew of 12 and [[red underline]] hardly a AB [[/red underline]] amongst them. - [[red underline]] Has not even a mate, [[/red underline]] and if he gets ill, nobody to make a sun observation. The captain seems used to all this and takes it all in the "days work" Told us how he first got to Jamaica in a wrecked ship barely afloat and with his whole family, wife and two children aboard. and how they started hacking off the afterhouse so as to have something to float on after the ship went under. - [[red underline]] No wonder a sailor who is hired aboard a yacht thinks a man [[/red underline]]