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[[pre-printed]] 84 [[/pre-printed]] St. Kitts 6.

On the leeward coast I passed the famous Brimstone Hill. We'll have to come back and have a close look at it. It is supposed to [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]]  ^[[insertion]] have been [[/insertion]] the strongest citadel in the W.2. 
No mail from yesterday's boat yet. Spent the afternoon reading and doing accounts for September.
[[left margin]] X-6-36 [[/left margin]] Showers last night but "clean" skies today. Meaning no rain but plenty of clouds! I went northeast of town to the beginning of the southeast peninsula at Frigate Bay Est. The entire half mile width of the peninsula here is flat pasture land with while sand beaches along North and South Frigate Bays.
[[underlined]] Station 297. [[/underlined]] 
Pasture at Frigate Bay Estate, parish of St. George. From dung took 166 Staphs (Paederinae - 13, Xansholininae - 1, [[underlined]]  Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 16,[[underlined]] Aleochara [[/underlined]] - 15, other Aleocharinae-121), 12 Sphaeridiinae, 2 Histerids, 21 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]], ants, and hymenoptera. From under dry dung on the mud at edge of salt pond took 3 Siny Caralids.
[[underlined]] Station 298. [[/underlined]] 
[[strikethrough]] Southern [[/strikethrough]] Eastern end of North Frigate Bay, practically same as sta. 297, but in parish of St. Peter. Under seaweed on beach found 1 Cafius. 
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[[strikethrough]] Spent [[/strikethrough]]. Rode part way and walked part to the end of the beach where the submarine cable is landed. There were no shells on the beach, but twice I found worm tubes with several barnacles, still alive. Put them in a vial of water and later into a tumbler.
Counted specimens and read during afternoon. After tea we walked along the esplanade to Fort Thomas, - about a mile, and back. After dinner Ruth played bridge with some ladies.
[[left margin]] [[inkmark]] X-7-36 [[/left margin]] I went out collecting in the morning. Stopped at [[underlined]] Station 299. [[/underlined]]
Key Gut, on windward road, boundary of parishes of St. [[strikethrough]] Mary [[/strikethrough]] ^[[ok]] and St. Peter. No stream, but I found some good dung. Took 50 Staphs([[underlined]] AnySelus [[/underlined]] - 35, Paederinae - 3, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 2, [[underlined]] Actobius [[/underlined]] - 7, Aleocharinae - 3), 2 Carabids, 4 Sphaeridiinae, 10 large Histerids and 8 small, 13 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]] and 2 Coprinae. 
Went on a short distance, but the weather was very threatening, so I returned. It rained shortly after I got home. 
In the morning we got a big package of 2nd Class mail. I got 6 Sciences, a Pan-Pacific, a Revista, etc., and letters from Edmonds, Tucker in Barbados, and the P.A. Nat. Bank, etc., etc. 
Spent rest of day on mail. S.S. Lionel arrived.