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Dominica 21.

well pleased with the food here. We get a lot of fish, have to ask often to get green vegetables which are then improperly cooked and get very little fruit except mangoes and papaya. Something is upsetting my stomach - some symptom that I had so long in college. The fish seemed to be causing it in St. Lucia, so I'm leaving it out entirely for a while. We've been pleasantly surprised to have ice cream for tea every day this week. Today it was custard vanilla - swell. We can't get any oranges or grapefruits, avocados, peas (pigeon or otherwise), any meats but mutton, no good pastries or cakes (the latter fair). We agree that it's the poorest food we've had on the trip.
VI-19-36 We went collecting again to the Layou River.
[[underline]]Station 246.[[/underline]]
Same as sta. 235. Tried using the sieve on a pile of black decayed cocoa pods. Took only 8 Hydrophilids, 8 Forticulids, 4 ants, and 10 or 15 myriapods. In flowers of cultivated tobacco found 3 slender Mitidulids.
B In rather dry dung Ruth found 4 Staphs (1 each Piestinae, Paederinae, Xantholunae, [[underline]]Aleochara[[/underline]], 1 [[underline]]Aphodius[[/underline]], and 1 large larva.
[[underline]]Station 247.[[/underline]]
1 1/2 miles west of sta. 241, in Layou River valley. On fresh mango fragments found 1 Oxytelniae and 6 Nitidulids.
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[[underline]]Station 248. [[/underline]]
Same as station 240A. Mouth of Layou River. In fresh chips of coconut husks found 69 Staphs (Paederunae-1, [[underline]]Caproporus-42 [[/underline]], [[underline]]Conssoma[[/underline]]-4, [[underline]]Lorinota [[/underline]]-group-5, other Aleocharinae-17) 59 Hydrophilids, 302 Nitidulids, 21 other coloptera, bugs, and ants.
A In a dead palm log Ruth found (in with some termites) 
B 2 small Aphodunae. In dung found 1 [[underline]]Anytelus[[/underline]] and 1 [[underline]]Aphoduis[[/underline]].
We have been much surprised to learn from several sources that there is a small island 100 miles due west of Dominica. It is Aves Island, entirely outside the chain of the Lesser Antilles, uninhabited and seldom visited.
 It took me all afternoon to count the specimens. In the evening my stomach bothered me a little, so I lay down. At 10 P.M. we listened to the Schmeling-Louis fight. Odds were 8-1 for Louis. He was down in the 4th, and out in the 12th. Apparently he won only two rounds on points.
VI-20-36 Rather rainy most of the day. Ruth went to the library and brought me two mysteries, so I spent quite a while with them. I also made out several budgets for various incomes, and can't see how anyone could own a car (in Washington) on less than $3000 a year. Figure we could get along on $1800, but not easily on less. Also did a little work on stamps.
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