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[[underlined]] Good Friday Mar. 30 Con'td [[/underlined]]

As Al remarked these French Ids look more prosperous;  more business like it seemed to me.  There is not the Gulf bet. black & white that you feel see and experience in the Eng. Isles.  The fraternizing does seem to make for better, more friendly & perhaps also more gainful relations.  Don't know when we'll get ashore, but its now after nine and 8 oclock date hasn't showed as Al surmised.  Fenner the Capt & I are now headed reef wards.  Rat Id. is place we worked and in many best collecting ground yet mud flats, sandy areas, [[?pop]] rocky islets (2) of honey combed & cracked sandy limestone filled with animal life, shallow water areas with seaweed crevices covered rocks of islets, turtle grass shoals of flats, a little bit of all manner of terrain including a bit of mangrove patch, which regretably we did not explore.  Did not get back for lunch till after 2, and it took us all afternoon & early night to sort and put stuff in pickle.

Al Smith & Clarke had date with Stehle to collect rain forest about his home with lunch at 12:30.  Well they were late getting started, got there around 10:30 I guess, but were so interfered with with friendship, talk, etc. and staff of experiment station crowding round & interfering that