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[[stamped page number, upper left corner]] 28 [[end stamp]] St. Thomas 2.

there was little chance of our not being able to get passage to Guadeloupe. In the afternoon we walked part way up the hill back of the hotel and got a fine view of the city and harbor. Took a photograph of it.   About 600 ft. elev.
[[left margin note]] X-20-35 [[end margin note]] Sunday. Planned to take a survey drive about the island today, but got up so late that we decided to do it after lunch. Yesterday I wrote and mailed a letter to Ed, with the third monthly report.
[[margin notation, in black ink]] [[underscore]] Photo #30 [[/underscore]]
#31. [[end margin note]]
Today I wrote the list of stations to go in my next letter.
At 2[[underlined superscript]]45 [[end underlined superscript]] the driver arrived and we started out to see the island. We went up to Bluebeard's Castle and then over the road to the eastern end of the island, making a loop and returning the same way. We saw many cattle, and stopped to take a picture and collect in dung.
[[underscore]] Station 66. [[/underscore]]
Cassi Hill, about 4 miles east of town of St. Thomas, near eastern end of island. [[left margin notation, written in pencil, underlined]] 10 Staphs [[end margin note]] Collected only a few minutes in cow dung. At Smith's Bay we got out, but as there was no seaweed, there was no collecting. We returned through town and drove through Cha Cha Town on the west. This
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is the French settlement, and is one of the poorest places I've seen anywhere. We then drove on to Lindbergh Bay and the C.C.C.Camp. From there we could see Sail Rock, and even Puerto Rico. This trip took us just three hours, though we traveled less than 30 miles. For this we paid $7.50, though I'm sure the boy had agreed to [[strikethrough]] pay [[/strikethrough]] charge us $2.00 an hour. Mr. Taylor thought that he should have done it for $5.00.
When we got back to the hotel we met a gentleman from St. John, Mr. Davis, who is caretaker or tenant or something on the property of Mr. Boulton, whom I met in Puerto Rico (at Mr. Bailey's garage). He said that St. John had a white population of 3, a black one of 350, had lots of cattle and virgin country, with horseback trails, could be reached by government launch occasionally or by chartered launch for 5 or 6 dollars. (for the day, and roundtrip).
Near Jersey Bay at the southeastern corner of the island we saw a place where there might be some collecting. It was a series of large piles of conch shells, which the natives had fished up. They use the meat for food, but there might be some decay.
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