MAKE SURE THERE IS NO OBJECTION TO MAKE SEARCH 

 NOW? LIFE MAGAZINE SENDING REPRESENTATIVE TO 

 REPORT AND MAKE PICTURE RECORD FOR FEATURE IN 

 LIFE. IMMEDIATE ACTION NECESSARY. E. A. LINK 



He received a reply the foUov^^ing day from Ambassa- 

 dor Roy T. Davis: 



FOREIGN OFFICE STATES DUE HOLIDAYS WILL BE UNABLE 

 TO ARRANGE CLEARANCE BEFORE SATURDAY MORNING. 

 SUGGEST CONTACT ANDRE LEBON. DAVIS. 



As we were already in close touch with Andre LeBon, 

 who was as helpless as ourselves, we waited impatiently 

 for Saturday to come. Meanwhile Ed occupied himself 

 with a few of the many jobs aboard Sea Diver that only 

 he could do — assembling and checking gear for searching 

 and diving, and installing the magnetometer in Reef Diver 

 so that it could be operated from the smaller craft. 



While Ed, assisted by Vital and Kemp, labored aboard. 

 Captain Weems escorted Bill, Clayton, and myself on many 

 forays into Cap Haitien. Known to its inhabitants as Le 

 Cap, this interesting towm had an air of the Old World, 

 with its narrow streets and tall, shuttered doors opening 

 directly on the sidewalks. Seated in the doorways, ill-clad 

 women of every degree of color, many big with child, 

 nursed naked babies at their breasts as they watched the 

 toddlers playing at their feet and the noisy antics of the 

 older children who raced about the narrow streets. Within 

 the doors we caught glimpses of newspaper-covered walls, 

 a clutter of poor furniture and scattered clothing, in small 

 connecting rooms, one behind the other. 



Here and there, the solid, pastel-tinted fronts of the 

 houses gave way to empty spaces, where broken founda- 

 tion stones of old buildings lay almost concealed by en- 

 veloping green vines. The cobbled sti'eets were fashioned 

 from ballast stone, brought to Cap Haitien from all parts 



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