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[[preprinted]] 54 [[/preprinted]] Antigua 31.
Mr. Westcott, an American who has been in this job for 14 years. What accounts for the Edison type sockets used here, while all the other islands use the Bayonet type. He claims that the latter do not last as well in tropics, - springs give out. We talked for quite a while about the English road. fund surplus (turned over to armaments, he says!)
the presidential election, horsepower of the motorcycle, the backwardness of West Indians in general, the waste of waterpower in Dominica, etc., etc.
I got the battery at about 5:30. It wasn't fully charged,but enough,and Mr. Westcott didn't charge me for it. The regular charge is $1.00 (even he thought that a very high price.
In the evening we played bridge again. A little more spectacular than usual and not so nearly correctly bid and played.
[[left margin]] IX -2-36 [[/left margin]] Out again along the "Valley Road" to the south-west coast. Passed stations 277 and 280 and continued around to the southeast. Here there is no sugarcane, but a narrow flat (?) coastal plain, with more natives than usual. There is an almost continuous mangrove lagoon for five or six miles. Montserrat and Ridonda were clearly visible, but I could see neither St. Kitts nor Guadeloupe.
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[[underlined]] Station 285 [[/underlined]]  
About 2 miles west of St. Mary's Church and Old [[left margin]] A [[/left margin]] Road, on south coast of parish of St. Mary. In [[underlined]] cattle [[/underlined]] dung found 627 Staphs ([[underlined]] Oxytelus [[/underlined]]-626,Xantholininae-1),31 Sphaeridiinae, 200 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]],[[left margin]] B [[/left margin]] and 1 Forficulid. In [[underlined]] horse [[/underlined]] manure found 89 Staphs ([[underlined]] Oxytelus [[/underlined]]-20, Paederinae-31, Xantholininae 1, [[undelined]] Philonthus [[/underline]] 31 , Aleocharinae-6), 3 Carabids, 11 Sphaeridiinae, 2 Histerids, 60 Aphodius and ants. This more than doubles the catch for the island. It is now 1324 Staphs. 
I continued on past Old Road, though the road is [[strikethrough]] near [[/strikethrough]] at least obsolescent and came through the mountain back into the road I followed on VIII-8-36, near Wallings. It took all afternoon to count the specimens. 
Ruth went out after tea to play bridge at the Langley's with Mrs. Mason.  As they cam home a little late, we didn't finish dinner till 8:45. 
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A threatening morning which developed into a thunder-shower.   I wrote letters (or typed them) to Fidelity Storage, Delisle & Co., and Bailey, and started one to Ed. Wrote another page of collecting stations, and got Ruth to file a big accumulation of papers.  Mrs. Mason brought in another batch of stamps for Ruth.
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