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which offerred good collecting. Dick found some fleshy fungi that were infested with Staphs and I took a good series of Aphodiinae from and under dung. The old foundation was very nice. It is just one of many to be found on the island and dates back to about 1835. After the freeing of the slaves the economic life of the island was disrupted and many of the planters returned to England. Termites probably

[[photograph - partial overgrown structure]] [[caption - Old cut stone foundation near Hope Bay.]]

took care of the superstructure in a few years but the stone work has stood. Plant life, mostly ferns, has completely covered it so that its color blends perfectly with the background. The larger fern seen in the picture is maidenhair, not very different from our northern species.
As it was now late in the morning we started along the road looking for a good spot for lunch. We finally selected a place on the beach a few miles west of Port Antonio. The north shore of Jamaica is certainly much better for scenery than the south; the beaches are clean and mostly white, there are many coves and, at least in the east, few mangrove swamps. Shortly after lunch we came into Port Antonio, once the main commercial port of the east end of the island but now of quite minor importance. For many years the United Fruit Co. used Port Antonio and maintained a large tourist hotel on the high ground just back of the town and harbor. The hotel was closed for a few years and when opened it was found that termites had riddled all of the furniture and other woodwork. Later the building was destroyed by fire which was probably a very good thing as the infested timbers might have transported to other parts of the island, thus spreading the colony. We looked around the town a bit, enjoying especially the various views of the