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botanist with whom he had corresponded over the years asked them down to Freelance for cocktails at 4.  Meanwhile Fenner, and I were busy putting up mornings collections, & Capt who said he would leave Sunday a.m. changed his mind and said because of favorable wind wanted to leave before nightfall because he had to have daylight to get out through rather tortuous harbor channel.  Bet. date Al made & non arrival of Stehles and a Dr. Blanch whom we met in Martinique and who was now here, we were between the devil and the deep sea, Capt wanted to get going & we were duty bound to see our promise through.  Finally they came at 5.30.  Al said these French, 4 meant any time bet 4 and maybe 10 p.m.  Well after they had been aboard an hour Capt mentioned wanting to avail himself of wind & daylight and about 6.10 they went ashore in good spirits after about 2 drinks of rum apiece.  Thus we got out of channel before it got too dark and had a rather windy rounding lower western end of Guadeloupe, rolling like the dickens will we turned north in lee of island and so had fairly quiet night.  In a.m. Guadeloupe was behind us and before long saw Antigua in distance, at first dimly and then as good