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[[red underline]] Black River [[/red underline]] via [[red underline]] Savanah La-Mar [[/red underline]] Beautiful hill country, good but winding roads. Interesting day because [[red underline]] market day [[/red underline]] everywhere on the road negro women and men walking to market carrying [[red underline]] everything on their head from a cup of coffee to a big bundle [[/red underline]] School children carry a [[strikethrough]] bunch of [[/strikethrough]] pile of loose school books balanced [[red underline]] on their head. [[/red underline]] - Erect and graceful walk of women Barefooted women but all clean white or pinkish light cotton dresses. [[strikethrough]] and large bus [[/strikethrough]] Some wear bandannas on their head, other wide brimmed straw hats [[red underline]] Variety of tropical vegetation [[/red underline]] everywhere. Gradually it gets hotter [[strikethrough]] until [[/strikethrough]] while
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we are entering the dirty and sunparched plains around [[red underline]] Savanna-la-Mar [[/red underline]] The latter seems a rather unsheltered harbor and two schooners ride at anchor about a mile from shore A pilot tells me they are protected by submerged reefs.
In many places market is held under the spreading branches of an enormous [[red underlie]] mango tree. [[/red underline]] Here there is a regular roofed market I [[red underline]] am the only white man around here. [[/red underline]]
I notice one negro woman who carries a large ^[[square]] [[red underline]] Standard oil [[/red underline]] tin can on her head and puts her broad [[red underline]] brimmed hat on top of the can, [[/red underline]] with a stone on it to keep it from being blown away by