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Marjorie is the assistant agronomist and, according to Miss Hermanse, draws four hundred pounds a year which is a very good wage on the island. Joan went elsewhere for dinner and Marjorie and I dined alone. We talked about sugar, the future of civilization, art and books until 10 PM. I found my way back to Windsor where I stirred up all of the dogs. Bed.

May 16.   Started about 8.30 for Bluefields Bay. First ran a mile or so up the Beeston Springs road to a good parking space. Collected i ndead stumps and under rocks, getting good series of several species of termites. One large stump was heavily infested

[photo caption]: House at Bluefields Bay, perhaps that of P. A. Gosse.

with a kaloternitid, perhaps Neotermes castaneus. I collected for myself until I had pickled a good series and then I let the lizards have what was left Four or five small lizards came up unto the stump and kept just out of the way of my cutlass, snatching the termites almost out of my fingers. Further up on the hill I found a nice colony of Cryptotermes with queen and also one of Nasutitermes, also with queen. Then down to the main road where I could see a house that is probably the one in which P. A. Gosse lived about 1850. It is now the Bluefields Hotel. Ate lunch on the sea wall and collected along the road until 2.30 when it started to rain. Returned to Windsor to put up catch and write notes. Continued to rain. Had tea and dinner at Windsor and ran out to Frome about 8 to