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their face very different from the [[red underline]] monkey like grin of the niggers. [[/red underline]] Herons and birds of many shades fly about, while the raft glides steadily downward the river. I am told that this is the way the bunches of [[red underline]] bananas [[/red underline]] are floated down the stream to be collected farther down by the steamers of the United Fruit Company
I had to pay 1₤ for my raft and man and this beautiful trip is certainly worth it. Am told that some [[strikethrough]] vist vist [[/strikethrough]] visitors come to this river and spend all day, rafting, swimming, fishing, shooting and pick nicking. As the nigger expressed it:
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"Americans come here [[red underline]] 'Sah' [[/red underline]] and stay all day Sah and swim sah, and eat sah, and smoke sah and drink sah, and have [[red underline]] plenty o' drinks [[/red underline]] and all kinds of beer [[red underline]] sah!" [[/red underline]]
Bamboo brushes - tree ferns, Ceiba trees, hibiscus in flower etc etc
Am told [[red underline]] Bananas [[/red underline]] delivered are [[red underline]] sold from 1 shilling to 2 shillings a stem [[/red underline]] (bunch?)
We are finally landed on a flat shore, [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]] where our motor car waits. We pass thru a plantation of Coconuts, bananas, [[red underline]] Cocoa [[/red underline]] trees and [[red underline]] coffee. [[/red underline]] Then over good roads, reached [[red underline]] Port Antonio [[/red underline]] at sunset
March 9. 1924 (Sunday). Afternoon drove to Blue Pool, a place about 4 miles away on a rocky shore with a