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conversation with a man & woman sitting in front of the place. They professed ignorance of the 1-armed woman and when I asked about tourist places he said "I rent rooms in the hotel." I said it seemed pretty noisy & he said that there wasn't much noise after 10.30. About this time it began to dawn on me that he was the proprietor of the hotel and I backed away once more. Going back to town (a couple of blocks) we obtained the address of a woman, only 2 houses from the hotel, who gave us a room for the night (just big enuf to get a bed into). There was only 1 bathroom & a man was in it shaving & stayed a very long time, but we finally got in. We got a decent fish supper at a clean little café across the street, & bacon & eggs next morning. We drove up to Elizabeth City that night, finding a fair number of plants along the way, and back home the next day. The last day's collecting was very poor except for some interesting things we got around a little natural sandy pond in Va.  Love SFB