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except [illegible] intermittently
during the rainy season.
Under the influence of the
strong E.S.E. [east]
southeasterly
trade winds, a feeble current
sets northward through the
Rivière Salée. The current is
reversed when the wind veers
to the east northeast.
At 5 o'clock of the morning
of the 16th, Tuesday, M. St. Sainte
Croix de la Roncière, one of the
most prominent of the French
men of the colony, and I started
from Pointe à Pitre for Porte
d'Enfer, with M.G. Gaudry as
chauffeur. Porte d'Enfer lies
on the northeast coast of Grande
Terre and our course to it