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as the trade wind comes in from the sea. we are in the city but on the shore of the bay and a few ships lie nearby. All of these, British American and the rest wer gay with bunting - the stars & stripes above all- when we came into the harbor on Washingtons birthday. It seem qute like home to see these things and hear the salutes expressive of good will toward our country. But the [[underlined]] English [[/underlined]] of these people is hardly better than the [[underlined]] Spanish [[/underlined]] of Cuba. It is a funny cockney dialect modified by the thick lips of the African.

The Island is black - awfully black - 600,000 colored to 14,000 white, and one sees little but Africa on the streets. Yesterday was market day and there were sights to be seen.  I spent part of the forenoon kodaking in the markets. For