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36   St. Lucia 36
This is an estate at the end of the road, just at the base of the Gros Piton. I then returned and followed the road to Belleplain Estate. Here I stopped to work some very fresh cocoa.
[[underlined]] Station 224. [[/underlined]]
Belleplaine Estate, 4 1/2 miles southeast of Soufrière. In freshly cut cocoa pods found 61 Staphs (Paederinae - 8, [[underlined]] Coproporus [[/underlined]] - 15, Aleocharinae - 38), 7 Hydrophilidae, 6 Nitidulidae, 4 Scolytids, 2 minute beetles, 4 Forficulids, mites, ants, bugs, and a spider. The pods were too fresh.
After tea Ruth and I put stamps in the notebooks she is using as albums. They are much better than the stock cards she has been using before.
IV-26-36  Spent the morning on the motorcycle. It has been [[missing?]] lately, so I removed the rear head in quest of oil or carbon. It was only a little dirty. I then tried changing plugs and high tension cables but without bringing the rear cylinder back to normal life. Adjusting the carburator mixture seemed to help considerably, so I let it go at that. The battery is low again. It probably needs distilled water. After lunch I read to Ruth, and brought my Field Notes up to date. They were two months behind this Journal.
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After tea we had a call from Mr. & Miss [[sign showing next word should come after "Mr."]] Leonard Devaux. He works at Minvielle & Chastomet in Castries and is here for a vacation. He collects stamps, so we talked stamps all the time. They came on a one-cylinder BCA motorbike, and apparently ride together on it a lot.
IV-27-36  In the morning I walked down the hill behind the house, crossed the river in its deep narrow canyon, and climbed up the other side to a pasture.
[[underlined]] Station 225. [[/underlined]]
1/2 mile southwest of St. Remy, across a branch of the Ivrogne River. In dung found 9 Staphs (Paederinae - 2, Aleocharinae 7), 51 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]], 6 Coprinae, & 2 ants. Also took a Lampyrid flying, and a Passalid in a log.
Ruth followed me down to the river and we walked back together. Stopped to look at the grapefruit again but it was too dry.
In the afternoon I went to Soufrière to get some stamps (for postage and collection), and we worked on stamps the rest of the day. Miss du Baulay came back on the launch at tea-time.
IV-28-36  Ruth finally put on her new trousers and went for a very short ride on the motor. First time I've [[underlined]] ever [[/underlined]] gotten her onto one of my motorcycles! I didn't do much else this morning. I've gotten terribly shiftless. Perhaps that's because collecting is so very easy here.