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[[preprinted]] 38 [[/preprinted]] Carriacou 4.

While standing around at the office, I was approached by a tall, thin negro with rather
weak eyes, who introduced himself as Mr.
Porter, G.D. Porter, George Dudley Porter, T.L.I.V., a native Barbadian, in Carriacou for his health for twenty years, having faithfully [[insertion]] served [[/insertion]] his king in the Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers, [[insertion]] his [[/insertion]] number 20, his rifle number 120, at the time of the change to the Lewis-Enfield rifles, sings at local socials, and "I am ready." He was obviously anxious to meet any strangers, to tell his story amid endless repetitions, and to learn something from the other. I'm afraid the bare name was all he got from me. At least he didn't ask for money!

Mr. Simmons has a tiny Austin. Strictly
speaking there are no "roads" on the island,
but the map shows quite a few, and these
[[underline]] can [[/underline]] be travelled by car if necessary. At any rate he drove Mr. Knight and me up to the former's house on a saddle overlooking both the Atlantic and the Caribbean, at Belle Air. This is a nice stone house of six or seven rooms built a few years ago. Mr. Simmons promised to take me about the island tomorrow and will come by at 7:30. 

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Mr. Knight is a negro, but does not impress one as such. He is very dark, but his speech, manners, habits, etc. proclaim his education and culture. We talked before and after supper and I learned quite a few things about Dominica, from which he has just recently come. He [[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] must have been some sort of an engineer [[insertion]] (civil) [[/insertion]] there. He said he would write to Mr. H.D. Shillingford, a planter in Dominica, [[strikethrough]] w [[/strikethrough]] who would be able to give me some aid there. He recommended the Cheery Lodge Boarding House run by J.G. Tavernier in Roseau.

Mr. Knight has been trying to interest his son Curtis in collecting stamps. He has gotten quite a few of the near-by Jubilee sets, and gave me several which we do not have. He says he likes to give and is not interested in exchange. They are interested chiefly in West Indies, and in stamps of historical or other interest.

He says that in Dominica, at least, one can
pick up shillings of George III, and others of the eighteenth century. Also double florins common.

[[underline]] Station 142. [[/underline]]

Home of Mr. Knight at Belle Air, near Belle Vue Hospital, about two miles north [[insertion]] east [[/insertion]] of Hillsborough. One beetle flying to light.