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the boat must be taken up soon and of course Dick can't afford to pay for four passages home at the same time. I went to the bank (Bank of Nova Scotia) to get cash to pay my bills at Mrs Wooler's and the Lindo's as well as to do a little necessary shopping. Went to Henderson's for hardware. Bought two more cutlasses, at one and nine each, two knives at five and six each and a heavy outdoors knife for Elsie Brown at nine shillings. After lunch we started for Bath by way of Easington and Trinityville. The Yallahs river was very low and the fords were all open. It is hard to believe that if they had a hard rain in the Blue Mountains, the Yallahs would become a raging torrent in a few minutes. Just upstream of the present bridge at Easington are the remains of an old suspension bridge dating from the Spanish occupation. The two pylons are still standing and the notches in their tops for the three cables are plainly visible. The bridge floor was at the level of the gateways cut through the pylons. As we approached Bath we noticed a stream cutting across the road that looked like good collecting. We stopped and took some fine water beetles, including many dytiscids. Almost as good a haul as we made from the small pond in the pasture near May Pen. We ate tea and turned the car around as it was getting late. With the net up we ran back a few miles. Here we turned off of the Cedar Valley (Trinityville) road and went down to Morant Bay, following the Morant River, and then along the coast road to Kingston. Thirteen miles out of town we came across three girls in a broken down car. We took a message to an officer at the Up Park Camp barracks.

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[[caption]]The valley of the Yallahs. [[caption]]

Mar. 3. Spent the morning putting away the catch of the last few days. Also wrote up some of the notes that 
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