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[[red underline]] which [[/red underline]] we had left at anchor unattended.
[[underline]] Sunday, March 31 [[/underline]] Easter Sunday Fresh Easterly breeze and pleasant weather but when trying to leave discovered trouble on transmission of motor. So remained repairing. Found small piece detached iron in gear case, source of all this delay. Catlow & Murray spent remainder of day catching [[red underline]] stone crabs [[/red underline]] on shoal near Bridge
April 1, 1929. Left at 8 AM. Fresh breeze against us, followed new ferry [[strikethrough]] bo [[/strikethrough]] to Lower Matecumbe in its course. then thru [[red underline]] Bowleg Keys. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] etc. [[/strikethrough]] and dropt anchor at sunset [[strikethrough]] just beyond the [[/strikethrough]] outside the Northerly end of Card Sound Bridge. Caught several fish trawling.
April 2. Left early again wind against us but beautiful weather continues. In [[strikethrough]] ha [[/strikethrough]] my 
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[[red underline]] harbor at 11:20. [[/red underline]] Cornelia and Nina and their children are leaving tonight for New York. Busy day sending letters arrived during my absence. Letter from [[red underline]] Weger urging me to come to Berlin to arrange differences between French and German Companies [[/red underline]]
Wired to Rossi he can attend to this and wrote accordingly to Weger.
April 3. This place looks like luxury after the wild uninhabited places where we have been cruising
[[red underline]] Hugh Matheson [[/red underline]] came here to ask me to [[red underline]] join himself his father, Arthur Curtis James and Mrs. McCormick to dredge [[/red underline]] our channels to [[strikethrough]] und [[/strikethrough]] at least 5 feet. Told him that altho' I am perfectly happy with present depth and do not intend