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canes can be grown in this region. From Seville we drove to the Edwards' new place near St. Ann's Bay where they are building a new summer place on a low cliff overlooking the water. This particular cove is supposed to be where the Niña foundered and was called "Casa Niña" by the Spaniards. We went in for another swim but it was not particularly pleasant as there is no sand at all and the coral rock is very sharp. Had lunch and did a bit of sweeping, getting a few good things. Also collected a sample of snails from the rocks. Right by the house there is the mouth of an underground stream and Edwards is trying to dig a channel from the sea to the mouth of this stream so that he will have a safe anchorage for a small boat. A great deal of blasting is involved and that seems to involve a large amount of red tape. It appears that at least two government officials must be present when dynamite is used anywhere on the island. We left at 2 PM, headed for Ocho Rios. At White River I found a log on the beach which contained a colony of [[underlined]] Heterotermes convexinotatus [[/underlined]] but no termitophiles. We stopped again to make a short call on Mr Hutchins, who was about to make a trip to Boston, his original home. He seemed like a nice chap and certainly has a nice place. Back across the island by way of Fern Gully. After going through Spanish Town we turned up the Sligoville road to another place of Edwards. This is a 500 acre pimento estate with a fair house. The collecting was reasonably good and I beat the shrubbery while Edwards tended to some business matters. Then back to Piccadilly Road, having left my fountain pen at Eaton Hall and my bathing trunks in Edwards' car. Had dinner and in the evening Bernard and Lucille called and we talked over the plans for the trip to Cinchona. Lewis can get in four days and perhaps Norris will come along. We will go there by way of Chestervale and Clydesdale, sending our duffle to Cinchona by mule, while we walk. Lewis wants to look over the buildings at Clydesdale because they have an offer of one of them for a station. If it works out properly, Lynn, Buck and company will make it their headquarters when they come down later in the season. We will use the Forestry cabin at Cinchona because Christopher Swabey will probably be in the party. 

April 28.  Phone call early from Lewis that the new sea cow was dead and did I wish to do a post mortem on it. I finished labelling yesterday's catch and got ready to go down. Mrs. Dignum found that her car batteries were dead again (short circuit somewhere that hasn't been found) and I gave her a lift down town. Dropped her