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Altho they were not infected they [[red underline]] had to disappear [[/red underline]] for the artificial teeth and bridge work. Misner watching the operation so as to fit his bridge work, then after [[red underline]] Wielage [[/red underline]] had put his dressings in, [[red underline]] Misner [[/red underline]] made his outfit, fasten to the side teeth. Then I drove home, no pain but a [[red underline]] queer sensation [[/red underline]] of strange things [[red underline]] in my mouth. [[/red underline]] Arriving home tried to eat some canned meat, rather though, and found had trouble with chewing. [[red underline]] Felt as if I had a tin plate in my mouth, [[/red underline]] so limited myself to half liquid food and soups. Taste also seemed to have disappeared but this was probably result of local anestesy effects persisting. 
[[vertical note in left margin]] 5 P.M. visited Harold Hilder in his new Coral Gables Studio, nice collection of his painting, but he seems older than his age. [[/vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] June 26. [[/underline]] Early rain and more rain but drove early to [[red underline]] Misner [[/red underline]] who removed artificial teeth for further adjustment. [[red underline]] Misner [[/red underline]] tells me the metal part was cast by him in his little lab and is an alloy of [[red underline]] gold & platinum [[/red underline]], and a small amount of [[red underline]] Palladium.
Wielage [[/red underline]] removed the dressing and cut away the threads with which he had secured the wounded parts over the jaw bone. 
[[vertical note in left margin in red]] Dentists [[/vertical note in left margin]] The new teeth set feel somewhat easier, altho still have that feeling of strangeness as if I were biting against [[red underline]] tin plate. [[/red underline]] Col. [[red underline]] Mershon [[/red underline]] has bought a strip of land in Silver-Bluffs and has started to plant and build on it. Will give him something to worry about it, without having to invent worries. [[end page]]
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[[underline]] June 27. [[/underline]] Went out on [[red underline]] ION [[/red underline]] with Andrew and Robert Mackie (colored) so that I may try the latter as to his abilities on the water, which I soon found out are rather limited altho' incomparably better than William Robinson (colored) which I discharged lately. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] ION [[/vertical note in left margin]] [[strikethrough]] In [[/strikethrough]] Excellent weather but only faint wind. Left harbor 8:45 P.M. at half tide and were back at 3 P.M. after visiting Bear Cut, then [[red underline]] Mathesons harbor-basin, [[/red underline]] later on Mathesons excellent [[red underline]] Hurricane Harbor [[/red underline]] which was made by dredging it out so as to obtain filling for his Key Biscayne. A sturdy mooring [[strikethrough]] bay [[/strikethrough]] ^[[buoy]] giving plenty of scope for anchor chain in bad weather. 
[[vertical note in left margin in red]] Matheson's Island [[/vertical note in left margin]] 
Then went to old [[red underline]] Hurricane harbor near Cape Florida [[/red underline]] of which entrance between 2 stakes is too narrow for the ION. This is low tide and the [[red underline]] little rivulets [[/red underline]] which drain the Island are [[red underline]] rushing in brown red stained water, [[/red underline]] due to the tannin and coloring matter leached out of decaying mangrove roots. In the dinghy we explored the whole contour and among the [[strikethrough]] pea [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] flat pearl-oysters, [[/red underline]] found a good supply of [[red underline]] edible oysters [[/red underline]] which I took home and after brushing off the mud etc. put in the refrigerator where they supplied me 3 excellent oyster meals the following days. 
[[vertical note in left margin in red, underlined]] Oysters [[/vertical note in left margin, underlined]] 
Then went out along [[red underline]] cape Florida [[/red underline]] where