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[[margin]] IX-20-36 [[/margin]] Sunday. Went swimming at the Fort with Ruth, Addie, and Mr. Frost. I didn't feel specially like it, and hate not to have a fresh-water shower afterwards. Took the little puppy along for his first experience with salt water.
   After lunch we (same four) went to Five Islands Estate to visit Mr. Raeburn. We went in Mr. Frost's car, and as the road is quite bad, we had a sample of that bad combination - bum road, bum driver (perhaps also bum car!). We had tea, saw the fine views, a cat, a dog, a macaw, three kittens, etc., etc. Mr. Raeburn is a veterinary (a Dr., I think) from Cornell. He was an American citizen though born in Antigua, but lost his citizenship by residing so long abroad. One of his men went to the National Poultry Institute in Washington and received a degree of Graduate Poultrician!
   We walked about 1/1/4 miles to Little Bay, where the beach is composed entirely of shells. All of us spent half an hour picking up shells, till we had a really large bunch. Some are very nice. Got back just in time to drive home at dusk. Mr. Frost drives about 2/3 of the time with the hand throttle, uses the clutch only at the last extremity, steers by sharp turns and with delayed returns, etc. (Practically all wrong!)
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Mr. Raeburn told me that the sectional house that Mr. Petri-Hay deprecated (page 31) was really a great success; insulation is unknown out here but is very satisfactory when used; the direct current system here in St. Johns was the result of a crooked salesman and has prevented the use of practically all electric appliances; that wire screen really doesn't last more than three or four months here unless it's copper which is [[double underlined]] very [[/underlined]] expensive; many of the building ideas are just ignorance. He invited us to come back again.
[[margin]] IX-21-36 [[/margin]] [[underlined]] Station 289. [[/underlined]] (IX-20-36)
[[strikethrough]] Same as sta. 285. From dung took [[/strikethrough]]
Fort [[strikethrough]] St. [[/strikethrough]] James Beach.  3 Cicindelids flying.
[[underlined]] Station 290. [[/underlined]]
Same as sta. 285. From dung took 106 Staphs [[underlined]] (Oxytelus [[/underlined]] - 54, Paederniae - 23, Xantholininae - 2, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 27), 33 Sphaeridiinae, 7 Histerids, 54 [[underlined]] Aphodius, [[/underlined]] 1 Coprinae, [[insertion]] and [[/insertion]] 1 other coleoptera. (Specimens labelled Sta. 290 excrement should be labelled sta. 291.)
[[underlined]] Station 291. [[/underlined]]
1 mi. south of sta. 277. From under excrement on the beach took 77 Staphs (Aleocharinae), 34 Carabids, 235 Histerids, and 1 Tenebrionid.
[[left margin]] See page 92. [[/left margin]]   
These bring the total for the island to 1584. I've set 1700 as the goal.