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Rather [[underlined in red]] poverty stricken poor niggers. [[/underlined in red]] But as always well uniformed nigger policemen of over average size and dignified bearing
[[left margin vertical in red]] Antigua [[/left margin vertical in red]]
At 5. P.M. or boat dropt anchor before [[underlined in red]] Antigua [[/underlined in red]] then by launch went to shore. - Went walking around instead of driving so as to come in contact with population composed of raggy negroes and then half naked ragged children. Poverty stricken quarters but the colored people do not seem to mind it. Very few pure whites. Population made up besides Africans and and mixed blood, a few [[underlined in red]] Syrians [[/underlined in red]] also [[strikethrough]] somes [[/strikethrough]] quite a number of [[underlined in red]] Dominicans [[/underlined in red]] the latter island seeming over populated and having many unemployed. Main industry in all these islands seems [[underlined in red]] Sugar [[/underlined in red]] and [[underlined in red]] Rhum. [[/underlined in red]]
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[[underlined in red]] Rhum [[/underlined in red]] retails at about $1.00 a bottle full quart. Quite a [[underlined in red]] complication with money values [[/underlined in red]] due to continuous variations in exchange of the American Dollar versus the Canadian and the English pound and local banks and retailers exploiting situation to the utmost.
A young mulatto who guided me told me he was a mason and like many other Dominicans had recently moved [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] to here and elsewhere to find work. Besides English he spoke French Patois and on trial I found he could keep up conversation in French 
Picturesque mountains and vegetation. Fine golf courses and tennis fields but very [[underlined in red]] few strictly white inhabitants [[/underlined in red]]
[[underlined]] Aug 23 [[/underlined]] Arrived [[underlined in red]] Gaudeloupe [[/underlined in red]] 6 A. M. Ashore in tender to [[underlined in red]] Basseterre. [[/underlined in red]] Creoles and patois. Dirty market and [[underlined in red]] dirtier streets [[/underlined in red]] but [[underline din red]] people look cheerful [[/underlined in red]] and the women on the street with their colored turbans and other color effects made a cheerful picture, rather