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the beds, Altho' mosquitoes are rather scarce on the Island. Mosquitoes or flies seem to be about and I am told that even during the summer or wet season they are not bothersome. On the other hand ants are sometimes troublesome.
[[strikethrough]] [[underline]] March 8. [[/underline]] (Saturday) [[/strikethrough]] Two America destroyers have arrived here and [[red underline]] Captain Drace White [[/red underline]] and his officers of the Bridgeport together with the officers of the [[red underline]] hospital ship "Mercy" [[/red underline]] have all arrived here and there is a formal ball offered to the American officers which lasted until late in the night.
[[underline]] March 8. [[/underline]] Out swimming on a white shoal near hotel which [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] is reached by a 
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little transfer Motor-Launch On the shoal is built a little wooden house with compartments for undressing. Water [[red underline]] clear as crystal [[/red underline]] - excellent Good hard sandy bottom and no current
This morning all officers have left and are motoring back to their ships in Kingston Afternoon went with the [[red underline]] Martins [[/red underline]] to the [[red underline]] Rio-Grande [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] whic [[/strikethrough]] a few miles away from the hotel thru pretty landscape of tropical vegetation for [[red underline]] "shooting the rapids of the Rio-Grande on [[/red underline]] bamboo-raft. We arrive at a place of the River where their [[red underline]] rafts [[/red underline]] are made up by lashing together about 10 or 12 long thick bamboo poles tied to a transverse bamboo