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[[left margin in red]] Trinidad [[/left margin in red]]
After thus spending the morning at the Botanical went to a recently opened country hotel near by: [[red underlined]] Hotel Sand & Parisian, [[/red underlined]] managed by a Frenchman. Place is [[red underlined]] clean, cheerful and well managed. [[/red underlined]]
After my luncheon engaged motor car for the trip [[red underlined]] "Over the Saddle" [[/red underlined]] this meaning the road that passes over a depression between two mountains. A [[red underlined]] continuous succession of tropical landscape, [[/red underlined]] forest jungle, sugar cane and Coconut plantations. Inhabitants varying between [[red underlined]] jet black negroes, mulattos, Farsees, hindus, chinese [[/red underlined]] etc. etc. [[red underlined]] All cheerful [[/red underlined]] and well behaved and working on various plantations. [[strikethrough]] B [[/strikethrough]] [[red underlined]] Sugar, Cocoa, Yams, Rhum [[/red underlined]] distilleries etc. etc. After returning wanted to drive to "Blue Basin" but was overtaken by a [[red underlined]] strong rainfall [[/red underlined]] which kept on pouring for over an hour so never got there.  So went back to the boat
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[[top margin in red]] Letter from George
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There found a letter by Air-Mail [[overwritten]] for [[/overwritten]] from [[red underlined]] George [[/red underlined]] in which he expresses himself as to [[red underlined]] uncertainties of business situation in U.S. [[/red underlined]] due to political factors and dangerous tendencies complicated [[red underlined]] by coming elections. He thinks we ought to abandon for the moment our Pension fund project and wait for better times. [[/red underlined]]
[[left margin]] We cannot afford to take $320000 from our present surplus. [[/left margin]]
Marvelous sunset. - Sand sharks and a large variety of catfish are greedily swimming around our ship to swallow whatever drops overboard. Ship remains here until tomorrow 10 P.M.
[[underlined]] Aug 27. [[/underlined]] Went to Bank to get some cash. Then visited the numerous, [[red underlined]] alluring and well kept stores. [[/red underlined]] Bought an excellent broad brimmed [[red underlined]] topper for $2.00 [[/red underlined]] also a pair of [[strikethrough]] Jap can [[/strikethrough]] [[red underlined]] white canvass rubber soled shoes, made in Japan for $1½. [[/red underlined]] Shoes imported from [[red underlined]] Chechoslovakia and Japan [[/red underlined]] are extraordinary