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[[stamped page number, upper left corner]] 100 [[end stamp]] Trinidad 34.

[[left margin note]] XII-20-35 [[end margin note]] Was very tired after the hard trip yesterday. I must be getting a little soft. I found that the dent in the gas tank was caused by my right knee, the latter got black and blue and a large area below on the leg turned a sickly yellow. Was a little afraid it would be serious. Worked on the filing cards quite a bit. Also some on accounts. It rained quite a bit.
[[left margin note]] XII-21-35 [[end margin note]] Went to town in the morning to see if there is any boat sailing early in January. Huggins gave me a new Canadian National S.S. Co. schedule. It shows a boat leaving on January 7[[superscript]]th[[/superscript]]. We decided to take it. In the paper we read about the crash last night of the Pan-American clipper plane at the landing here. It nosed over while landing, broke a few bones, but killed no one. It had a crew of eight and 21 passengers. The mail was salvaged, though part of it got wet and one letter was illegible. This was the first accident ever had in this service, over ix years of schedule flying.
[[left margin note]] XII-22-35 [[end margin note]] Mrs. Adamson came by early to take us on a picnic. Mr. Adamson had some unexpected work to do, but might join us later. The place we went to is about five miles from St. Augustine in the hills to the north.
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[[stamped page number, upper right]] 101 [[end stamp]]

[[underline]] Station 109. [[/underline]]
About 2 miles north of Tacarigua along the Tacarigua River. About 4 miles n.e. of St. Augustine.
[[left margin note, written in black ink]] A [[end margin note]] Collected under stones along the river's edge, and found quite a few Staphs and a few Carabids; also under one dry stone I found a single dry skin of a Dryopid larvae. When I picked it off I found a fully developed adult beneath. Later on I atook more than a dozen of the larvae from 
[[left margin note, written in black ink]] B [[end margin note]] the underside of stones in the stream. Found a 
[[left margin note, written in black ink]] C [[end margin note]] few Staphs under moss and dirt on a rock.
  This was a very nice picnic spot along the river, shaded by bamboos, and with a fine swimming hole--deep enough for diving. We arrived  to find that Mr. & Mrs. Phillis were there ahead of us so we had a larger party. About two we went back to St. Augustine to see if Mr. Adamson was finished. he was nearly so and we had tea while we waited. Then we all went for a ride. We went to Arima, and then up the river to the top of the range. Then we got out and walked about a mile down the other side. Saw some fine tree-ferns and immortelle trees. It started raining on the way back but [[Alper ?]] and I both had raincoats so we sat in the rumble seat. We stopped to cut a bamboo to take back to use as a Christmas tree.
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