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[[preprinted]] 32 [[/preprinted]]  Antigua 9.

[[margin]] VIII-5-36 [[/margin]] Another very hot, rainy day. Everyone seems to be suffering from the heat. I don't mind it so long as I don't have to put on a lot of clothes and go out. In my khaki shorts I can be fairly comfortable about the house.
  Ruth went shopping in the morning, and brought home two avocados. They cost her 2 1/2 d.
  Worked some on stamps, and also on the cataloguing. I've written nearly a thousand cards, but have only started on the papers.
[[margin]] VIII-6-36 [[/margin]]
Today was much cooler. We hardly left the house all day. In the morning got a newspaper from EB. It must have been in the same mail as the letters yesterday.
  I forgot to put down the station for the things taken on the 4th at the Fort. It was
[[underlined]]Station 272[[/underlined]].
Beach on south side of point at the Fort, 2 miles northwest of St. Johns, Antigua. Under seaweed found 2 [[underlined]] Cafius [[/underlined]] and 1 Aphodiinae.
  Copied the map of opposite page from one loaned me by Mr. Tavernier.
  Spent the rest of the day writing and sorting cards,
reading, and working on stamps. We are getting a large series of duplicates of West Indian stamps. Fine for exchanging.
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[[IMAGE - boxed pen map of Antigua including coastline, towns, topography, and numbered sites, which are Stations. Also red lines connecting Stations.]] 
[[underlined]] Antigua [[/underlined]]

[[margin]] VIII-7-36 [[/margin]]  The mail plane came in about 11 o'clock, and Roberts came by shortly after with bills of lading, etc. for my package from Bailey.  We went to the Treasury, where I was permitted to post bond for the duty, then