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They are all very dark brown to black, all appear to be stunted in grouth and all have very bad teeth. The cook and more or less chief-of-staff is Clarice, who is unofficially married to Ferdie. They have one or two children and expect to get married legally some day when it is convenient. Clarice makes very good scrambled eggs and can boil vegetables in water; otherwise the cuisine is very limited. She has a younger sister, Rosa, who cleans house and tries (?) to keep the place in shape. Ferdie does the outside work which includes taking a few cows to pasture each morning and bringing them back each evening. And last, "The Boy", a youngster of about 14 is attached to the menage to run errands etc. He makes one trip a day to Newport for supplies. The weekly wages of the four, respectively, in shillings are 5, 5, 3 and 2, a total of fifteen shillings or about $3.70 a week. In a place like Kingston the wage scale is a little higher but still nothing for the whites to be proud of.

After supper I went over the day's catch and put that away and then, as it was Hazel's birthday, I wrote her a letter. Also one to Alan Stone.

Feb. 19. Went out east of the house again and worked along as far as the stone wall and bamboo thicket. Took more of the bruchids and quite a series of good things. In fact, the best collecting that I have had so far on the island. Came back to the house to get more bottles of alcohol and found the noon meal on the table. Clarice is under the impression that I never come back until I am hungry. Since it was ready, I ate. Then I went along the road, sweeping the vegetation with poor results until I met Dick, returning from Kingston. The car is now in better condition than ever. Ruth stayed behind at the Wooler's. Dick brought the mail which was welcome. After unpacking and reading the mail, we swept for more bruchids. In the evening we put up the light on the porch and went out for fireflies whenever we saw a flash. About 9.30 PM a car pulled up at the front door. Marjorie Bovell and Barbara Nurse got out and settled themselves in the two rooms on the other side of the house. They watched us collect for awhile and then went to bed. We had planned to stay up until 3 AM to find out when the fireflies quit flying but got so sleepy that we gave up just before one.

Feb. 20. We started early for Dodd's Beach at Alligator Pond Bay and the girls went to Mandeville to do some shopping. As Paul Oman had asked me to look for a leafhopper living on some beach plant, I swept everything in sight. Finally I located a succulent Convolvulus on the beach away from the salt water which had hoppers. They are probably not what Paul wants but I took them on general principles.