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small flat [[?]]. [[red underline]] Blue Pool [[/red underline]] is an underground fresh water well that forms a deep pit of [[red underline]] fresh water [[/red underline]] near this shore, so that within a few yards distance the water is either perfectly fresh or salt 
A nigger took us out in a [[red underline]] dugout [[/red underline]], he showed me a [[red underline]] wound he had had on the Yzer [[/red underline]] and told me he had spent most of his [[red underline]] time in the war in Flanders [[/red underline]] 
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[[strikethrough]] Who [[/strikethrough]] I never thought when [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] as a young man, [[strikethrough]] w [[/strikethrough]] on that peaceful looking [[red underline]] Yzer in Flanders [[/red underline]] thirty five years later I was to meet in one of these Islands a raw nigger who was to tell me his war experiences in Flanders.
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[[underlined]] March 10. [[/underlined]] 
Left with Motor car at 8:30 A.M. Car knocks afterwards got stalled entirely. Burdo the chauffeur while exami
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ning the car, I went to neighboring Estate, there met an Englishman, [[red underline]] Squire Stedman who knows Allan D. Roberts [[/red underline]] and [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] with whom I had a pleasant chat (Bluff Bay) until Burdo tells me timing gear is stripped. [[strikethrough]] L [[/strikethrough]] An old Ford came along, offered to tow us 
But road was so steep in places we [[red underline]] all had to push several times and tow rope broke. [[/red underline]] I find that the passenger in the car is a [[red underline]] white Baptist Minister, Parson Tuslin (?) and his wife [[/red underline]] who looks as an [[red underline]] octoroon [[/red underline]] 
Finally had to abandon the Paige and drive to [[strikethrough]] Annoto [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Annotto Bay [[/red underline]] where the parson's church is, and send Ford back to tow the Paige there. In the meantime I got a lunch