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Wed. 7 May
Yates would get rather tiresome if I had to be out with him, but I expect that he will be left in some town while the rest of us are in the field. Anyhow I have just passed in my bill to him for $40.17 for expenses incurred so far, including mosquito nettings, medicines, & c.
We are passing among large patches of Gulfweed now, some of them twenty feet wide or so. - Ah, tea is served. - No, that was only tea for the captain. Ours will come soon. - The gulfweed is yellowish-brown in color, and some of the branches stick up over the surface. We have seen a lot of flying fish today, and this morning a Redstart was on the deck + even

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to take a look at them. The family were stretched out on a hatch + the coon lady was sleeping at her ease in a hammock.
Ashmead spends most of his time reading, Humon + I play cards or lottery a good deal with Antonio, and Yates spends a good deal of his time in his room playing on some sort of an unmusical ting-ting-ting instrument of the guitar sort. He is a young kid, not nearly as grown up as I was when I went abroad, + what they wanted to send him along for I don't know. Humon is a good sort, and has done a good deal of surveying work in the tropics of America. He says Ashmead is probably the best man at that sort of work in the States.

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Is the name Humon or Human? I have seen where it definitely is spelled "HUMAN", then here it definitely is spelled "HUMON". Don't know what that last name really is. His first initial is "T.", from reading other letters.