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a vine which Box says is [[underlined]] Marcgraavia [[/underlined]] sp. The species is the southern form of the two recorded from the West Indies in the Flora of Jamaica.
So far on this island I've taken 924 Staphs. I seem to have wasted more than the usual amount of time and to have expended much less energy than in either Barbados or St. Vincent.
IV-18-36 Went to town in the morning - as did Ruth. Left a roll of films to be developed, got mail at Bernard's, and bought a 2/6 stamp for Ruth. I rode around to Vigie, past the golf course and bathing beach, and up to the old barracks and forts on the hill. I also got a box of excelsior for marking the mounted Staphs from the Argentine that Box gave me. I went to see the launch Jewel which goes to Soufriere. It appears to be large enough to take the motorcycle.
At dinner-time we said goodbye to the Box's. He is going to Antigua and St. Kitts for a month while she is moving over to Vigie to live with the wife of one of the Cable Enterprise officers. His boat left today. The Lady Drake took Box, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Morris. We had seen very little of the latter.
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IV-19-36 Sunday. Did some packing, but left most of it for tomorrow. We said goodbye to Major & Lady Hlingsworth, who are having this evening on the Lady Nelson. In the evening I persuaded the large cat at the hotel to let me carry it down to our house. It stayed for nearly a hour. Listened to a very exceptionally good Major Bowes Amateur Hour on the radio.
IV-20-36 Spent the morning packing. We're leaving the trunk here as well as the dunnage bag, so put in them the radio and everything we can do without for about a month. I went to town to get our reservations on the launch Jewel, [[superscript]] and [[/superscript]] got some mail, including a letter from Westmore and 2nd Class.
We had lunch at the hotel, and then I rode down to the quay to load the motor. Ruth came in a taxi with the luggage. The boat was ready to leave by 2:15 but waited for an invalid until 2:45. We finally left without him. From Castries Bay we went south along the coast passing the Grand Cul de Lac Bay, Roseau Ray, and stopping first at the Anse La Raye and then at Anse des Canaries. This coast is not at all tropical-looking. It is xerophytic, but the hills behind are densely forested except where cleared. The latter places show up red-brown because of the clay left by the rains.