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[[preprinted]] 82 [[/preprinted]] St. Kitts 4.

[[left margin]] X-3-36 [[/left margin]]  Felt better today, but Ruth was still rather ill and stayed in bed most of the day.
   Spent the morning washing the motor and making adjustments - chain especially. In the afternoon worked on stamps with Ruth, and traced the map on next page from one loaned me by Mr. Tavernier in Dominica.
   Ruth ate very little dinner. To bed very early.
[[left margin]] X-4-36 [[/left margin]] After one early shower the weather cleared up. I took the motor out for a short spin, explored the roads out of town. Spent several hours typing the final copy of the Coproporus paper. Made a lot of corrections so that it would conform to the [[Pro?]] U.S.N.M. style.
   After lunch the S.S. Lagahohn, a Furness Co. freighter arrived - two days late. May have mail. 
   If tomorrow is still clear, it should be dried off enough to collect.
[[left margin]] X-5-36 [[/left margin]]  Didn't get a very early start, but went across the island and along the Windward Coast. There is considerable sugarcane except at the northwest corner. Stopped to collect at
[[underlined]] Station 296. [[/underlined]]
Roadside overlooking Lodge Gut, on boundary between parishes of St. Mary and Christ Church. From dung took 15 Staphs (Paederinae - 1,
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[[image - boxed, hand-traced map of islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. Shows Basseterre, Charlestown, and Booby Island, the road network and points numbered 296-314, indicating Stations.]]

[[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 1, Aleocharinae - 13), 12 Sphaeridiinae, 3 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]], and 1 Forficulid.
   Followed the road on around the island without stopping again. Saw a nice rugged island to northwest, - too large for Saba. It turned out to be St. Eustatius. (Saba is beyond.) It looks large but is only nine square miles.