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[[left margin note]] XI-11-35 [[/margin note]] Accomplished nothing today. Ruth was feeling a little under the weather and I read her one of the Charlie Chan stories. Still no news from the owner of the car, but today is another holiday,--Armistice Day. We didn't remember it, but there was some celebration and the shops were closed in the afternoon. No one ever seems to buy enough food for more than one day, so everyone would starve on such a vacation as this--three days. Saturday was the Tricentenary of the annexation to France. Result: The stores are open [[underscore first 3 letters only]] everyday [[/underscore in this word]],--at least during the morning.
The weather is certainly warmer down here, but the food is enough better to make up for the heat. For breakfast we have oranges and bananas, bread and butter, hot chocolate (or coffee--inedible), and scrambled eggs (or any other style). The lunch, which is the large meal of the day, we have hors-d'oeuvre, fish, citrons (for limeade, etc.), meat and potatoes, vegetable, bread and butter, salad (fresh lettuce and watercress, we don't dare eat), cheese, fruit (bananas, oranges, melon, and several tropical fruits usually), and coffee or tea. For dinner we have soup instead of hors d'oeuvre and dessert (a very nice ice cream last night.
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[[left margin note]] XI-12-35 [[/margin note]] Again accomplished very little. In the morning I wrote letters to Bernard Benesh and Kenneth Sloop. After lunch we moved again, this time into a corner room with three windows. Even with the extra ventilation we were much too hot to be comfortable. I had something that felt like prickly heat, and I was quite grouchy. The mosquitoes were exceptionally bad, and at dinner we heard others mentioning both the heat and the mosquitoes.
Day before yesterday we had two quite noticeable earthquakes about half an hour apart. Today we had another much less violent. I suspect it couldn't even be felt on the street. The others were quite noticeable, and this old frame building swayed and creaked. Heard later that the quakes last Sunday were felt in several of the other islands and caused some real damage in Montserrat.
[[left margin note]] XI-13-35 [[/margin note]] After breakfast went over to see the owner of the car and Mr. Devaux, the British Consul. The latter was out and the former said he would come over with his brother at 5 P.M. So we did a little window-shopping, and saw some Ray-O-Vac flashlights for 75 francs!! We made arrangements with a garage to hire a car tomorrow,--a French Citroën.
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