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and [[underline]] recommendations to Japanese contract [[/underline]] have [[underline]] all been accepted. [[/underline]] Letter from [[underline]] Neave [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Townsend [[/underline]] recommending [[underline]] compromise [[/underline]] with [[underline]] Ourey [[/underline]]
Jan. 14. Bright N.W, at noon left under [[underline]] square sail [[/underline]] and [[underline]] mizzen. [[/underline]] Delightful sailing [[underline]] used no power except [[/underline]] on [[underline]] Featherbed [[/underline]] shoal and on cut. Average speed 4 1/2 to 5 knots. moderate N.W Dropt anchor just beyond shoal South of cut, beyond Arseniker key
Quite cold at sunset
[[underline]] Jan 15. [[/underline]]  Sunny but cool. [[strikethrough]] NW [[/strikethrough]] N.W. Went sailing and exploring neighborhood in sail-pram all day.
Jan 16. Same N.W in morning. Went out sailing and explo
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ring neighborhood then to [[underline]] Adams key. Only one yacht [[/underline]] there. Beating against the wind all the time but ran home before the wind in a straight line 
At 4.00 P.M shifted anchorage of ION under [[underline]] jib and mizzen [[/underline]] to a point [[underline]] South [[/underline]] of [[underline]] Pumpkin key [[/underline]] and near shore of [[underline]] Key Largo. [[/underline]] Found our [[underline]] trawl squid [[/underline]] had caught [[underline]] good sized grouper. [[/underline]] A meal for 3. Weather milder. This night heard [[underline]] very well radio concert [[/underline]] in [[underline]] Havana [[/underline]] also [[underline]] New York, & Pittsburgh. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Jan 17. [[/underline]] Went into the woods (mangroves) of [[underline]] Key Largo [[/underline]] to find straight stick [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] for our prongs. In a few minutes had been [[underline]] bitten repeatedly [[/underline]] by voracious mosquitoes altho'