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April 23.  Lewis called for me at 6.45 AM and I was ready. Went first to the Institute to pick up two Cayman Island negroes, Norris and Mac. These were two of Lewis' help 

[[photo of two women, one standing slightly behind the other so that half her body is out of sight. Younger woman (presumably Faith) in front is taller, wears a patterned dress belted at the waist. Her stance is confident, brow is furrowed. Both women have cigarettes in their right hands.]][[photo caption]] Mrs D. and Faith. 
[[photo of man, very cropped hair, smiling and standing with feet apart and hands on hips. Wears a white shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows and pleated khaki pants. [[photo caption]] Dick Doubleday.

during his expedition to the Caymans. Then the four of us drove to Old Harbour Bay, through Spanish Town and Old Harbour. While the others were unloading the car, I stepped back into the bush and collected a colony of Crematogaster from a hollow branch. We packed our few supplies about three hundred yards to the shore where the launch was waiting. Before going abroad, we went up shore to look at a young manatee that a fisher-man had brought in. It was still alive and looked to be in good health so Lewis arranged to buy it for the Institute's zoo. Leaving shore, we first came abreast of Little Goat Island, already cleared for occupation. The barracks have been built but is not yet occupied because of the plague of sand flies. Great Goat has been surveyed but no great amount of clearing has been done yet. We landed at about the middle of the east side and dumped most of our stuff. So far as Lewis is concerned, the object of the trip was (1) to collect living specimens of the Jamaican Iguana (Cyclura jamaicensis)[[scientific name is underlined]] and (2) to cut sample logs of various species of native hardwoods. This island is the last stand of the Iguana and when the occupation of the island is completed by the U.S. Navy there won't be any lizards left nor many trees. There is a path, though a very rough one,
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