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Antigua 27.
[[left margin]]VIII-27-36[[/left margin]] Today was fairly clear but I didn't feel like going out. I yielded and stayed home. Spent the whole day on the filing cards. I've practically finished cataloguing the papers from Sherman, but will now check them all back against the cards.
It may have been the sitting down all day that made my stomach misbehave. I had a slight pain before dinner and even chewing gum didn't fix it completely before I went to bed.
I forgot to say last night that we played bridge in the evening. Mr Frost and I beat Ruth and Mrs. Mason.
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A little rain in the morning combined with general laziness to keep me home again. Collecting may be hard here but Im not working overhard at it. I labelled the specimens taken so far and put a few away.
At three o'clock we all started out for a picnic. Mrs. Mason hired a seven-passenger Studebaker and Mr.Frost , Addie, Ruth and I went along. We took tea with us and headed for the dockyard. First we went up a hill overlooking the two bays - Shirley Heights. It must be 1000 feet high, and gave a fine view. I took a [[underlined]] photograph [[/underlined]] (first on a roll of Verichrome) of English and Falmouth 
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Harbours and the Dockyard. We went also to another hill that gives a view to the east, along the coast. Took another [[underlined]] photo [[/underlined]] of this. We could see plainly Redonda and Montserrat to the West, and Guadeloupe and Desirade in the South. We had tea at one of the ruined barracks on the hill and I picked up a piece of the green stone that it rather common in this part of Antigua. Also some beetles-
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The Blockhouse on Shirley Heights, overlooking English Harbour on south coast. Under stones found 2 carabids and 6 or 8 [[Tenebriomids?]].
We then drove down to the Dockyard. This was built and used by Nelson and is in a good state of semi-repair. It is surrounded on 3 sides by a masonry pier, and on the face of this just underwater, is a fine display of corals, sea-worms, barnacles, bivalves, etc. with beautifully colored tropical fish and small eels swimming about. It was the nearest thing to Mass  Beach I've seen in the West Indies. The old caretaker was a [[bore?]], and for historical outlines, etc. refer to Ruth's journal. I took another [[underlined]] photo [[/underlined]] to show a shed and part of the pier for Ruth. Home for dinner.