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[[pre-printed]] 88 [[/pre-printed]] St Kitts 10.

These bring the island total to 576 Staphs.
   Spent the afternoon counting specimens. After tea Ruth went to play tennis. 
   Forgot to mention on the 8th that the SS Saint Domingue came in from St. Martin. On board was supposed to be Mrs. Ray, Addie's mother, but as they said [[strikethrough]] she [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] the boat [[/insertion]] was [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] not stopping at Antigua, she probably wasn't. 
   Ruth went out again to play bridge after dinner. I spent the evening cataloguing two papers on Staphs in the Revista.
[[margin]] X-11-36 [[/margin]] Had breakfast at 7:15, and then went out to Frigate Bay (South) to bathe, with Mrs. McDonald, Mr. [[different handwriting]] Drayton [[/different handwriting]] of the sugar factory, and Mr. [[different handwriting]]Haglett [[/different handwriting]] We collected shells for a while and had a fine swim. Then climbed around the rocks to see Rainbow Hill, a landslide exposing patches of about six different colored rocks. I got some samples here, and then Mr. [[different handwriting]] Drayton [[/different handwriting]] and I spent half an hour diving for sand-clocks (sand-dollars). We got about fifty and sorted out the best dozen to keep. They are alive, of course, but will dry quickly. Some other people arrived before we left, including Mrs. Wigley. On the way home we stopped at the "Batchelor's Quarters" for egg-nogs.
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[[preprinted]] 89 [[/preprinted]]

Didn't get home till after twelve. 
   This morning early the S.S. Burgos arrived from New York. She is a cargo boat of American Caribbean Line---not Furness as on page 71.
   Last night Mrs. McDonald got her radio working again. I guess I forgot to say that ours refused to work from the moment we landed here. The tubes light up but the loudspeaker is [[underlined]] dead [[/underlined]].
   On the picnic one of the men found a "monster" in his hat. Ruth provided a box to bring it home, and I killed it in a jug of alcohol.
[[underlined]] Station 303. [[/underlined]]
Same as stations 297 and 300. In brush above the beach, one 6 1/2 inch centipede.
[[margin]] X-12-36 [[/margin]] Got ready to go out but was stopped by a shower. Before it was dry there was another. Finally had to stay in permanently. Typed letters to Tucker and the P.A. National Bank.
   Yesterday one of the men showed us a good card trick. It took us both 40 minutes to figure out the system. The deck is put out into piles face down by counting up to twelve, first card at face value (face cards = 10) and all subsequent cards as 1, with perhaps a few left over. The trick-player then looks at the overs and the piles and tells the total of the face values of the bottom