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cigar factory in the world. Its capacity is 1500 men but only 1/3 of that number are working now. We passed through Ybor (pro-Ebor) City which is really a part of Tampa, but it is made up of negroes, Creoles, Spanish, etc etc. I will enclose a map so you can see just how St. Petersburg is situated. We were on the Tampa Bay side and had to car ride to Gulf Port where we got into a small launch and rode the first trip to John's Pass. We went in bathing before dinner. Hung our clothes up to dry on the clothes line in the sun provided for that purpose, ate our lunch took down the clothes and went back to the boat landing. While waiting a boy told us there were lots of Kokan'as coquenas in the sand on the beach so we went to dig some. They are little creatures something between an oyster and a crab that live in pretty little shells less than an inch long. The shells are tinted pink, green, red, tan, gray, blue, etc. People gather them and make a broth of them, and at Passe a Grille we saw a woman with a child's shovel digging in the sand at the edge of the water. She threw the sand into a sieve, pushed the sieve into the water and let the waves wash off the sand. She said she was getting them for dinner. I asked how she fixed them, She pours boiling water over the coquenas, stews them 20 minutes, strains them, adds pepper and salt and eats the broth with a sandwich. She told me that she and a friend had a booth on the beach all winter, and made broth and sold it and sandwiches to tourists. When we came back I took a picture of The Jungle, which is a swampy looking place covered with palms, vines, etc. etc. so think one couldn't get through. The flowers here are glorious now - Bogenvilla, purple vines, cover houses and barns and porches. The oleanders are blooming, also magnolias, roses, phlox, and many flowers I don't know.