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where [[underlined]] superintendent Sweeting [[\underlined]] with his sweet smile received us and showed us thru jungle of the Island.  Hurricane here has wrought great devastation destroying not only all shore trees, but docks and jetty and even the Coral 2 story house.  New house has been built stronger than former. He recited his impressions and tribulations of that hurricane, with only himself and his one alone on the Island.  Very interesting wild vegetation & fishes etc.  Also keeps some very beautiful Peacocks.  Also saw one of the Galapagos turtles (there are 2) which Dr. Townsend of NY Aquarium had harbored here from Gallopagos.  We left at 8.50 AM.  Light wind. - 10.45 before Long Key.
Destruction by the September Hurricane seems to have reached here its maximum.  From the approaches from the Bay the place is absolutely unrecognisable.  [[underlined]] All [[\underlined]] the buildings have been destroyed and the wreckage caught fire.  The former wooden docks have entirely disappeared, so the hotel and all cottages.  Not a single soul around.  Most of the Coconut Trees which were such an ornament to the Fishing Club, are either broken, felled or burnt stumps sticking out
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everywhere.  Twisted half melted pipes, and shafts as well as machinery from the boathouse and laundry building, so many rusty twisted half melted iron.  Empty bottles and broken bottles galore, intermixed with melted glass, the result of the fire.
The R.R. bank washed away and the railroad tracks, as further up North along the line, have been lifted up by wind and waves so as to stand on edge and to look like a fence of which the rusty upper and lower rails are made by the wooden R.R. ties.  [[image: drawing of previous description]]  Pieces of furniture, and wearing apparel, rusty radiophones, stuffed prize specimens of Sail-fish, Barracuda, bone fish etc which formerly graced the walls of the [[?Mens]] room of the hotel, are strewn around, still fastened on their planks and not too badly damaged are lying around among rubbish, broken pots and pans etc.  We arrived there at 10.45 and left at 12.15.
87°F in cabin but dry air and slewing to windward, very light wind.  Engine & boat running well at about 8 Knots, caught a large mackerell on our trawl line.  Shortly afterwards ran aground on a