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tori, and numerous other of decided Portuguese origin are in many cases - not all - Jewish as well. Several very Jewish looking ladies, who got off with us at Trinidad, had Portuguese names.

[[underlined]] Venezuelans [[/underlined]] - To be understood because of the proximity to that country. One also hears Spanish spoken on the street.

[[underlined]] Other South Americans [[/underlined]] -  Many showing quite a mixture of bloods in their make-up.

To go back to the [[underlined]] Portuguese. [[/underlined]] In reading some of Kipling's works I notice that the British in other parts seem to have the Portuguese at their heels. Several apt expressions of his.....a Miss Castries  - d'Castries it was originally, but the family dropped the d' for administrative [[strikethrough]] purposes [[/strikethrough]] reasons ...... possessed of what innocent people at Howe call a "Spanish" complexion ..... but for many reasons she was "impossible" ...... all good mammas know what "impossible" means ..... the little opal-tinted onyx at the base of her finger-nails said this as plainly as print ....
Such I think as the case here. Not all their darkness of complexion is caused by the sun.

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the other day some zealous and fanatic
"ethiopians" - used in a general sense - mistook a Portuguese flag for an Italian one, and thinking it the latter they tore it down. Whereby earning prison sentences for themselves as rioters. I wonder what would have happened had the flag been Italian. Would their fellow blacks have risen to the rescue?

[[underlined]] French creoles [[/underlined]] - These people, I understand, keep pretty much to themselves. They speak patois, and the more educated ones speak pure French. They are to be found in many minor executive positions in the government.

[[underlined]] Negroes [[/underlined]] - By far in the majority. Many of them fairly well educated. As household servants they seem to be more sensible and efficient than the ones in Jamaica. I lack other means of comparison.

[[double underlined]] Friday, November 29th, 1935. [[/underlined]].
The early part of the day was spent doing little or nothing. I did do a little writing to catch up on my Journal.
That evening we went to dinner at the Adamson's. I wore my blue taffeta. After having tried several of my other