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Our trip was out along the Eastern Main road thru Toco, to the end of the road at Sans Souci. Here I discovered some fungus for Dick, which he worked - I did too - and got a number of staphs. We passed thru several rain forest areas. I didn't always get out of the car when the men did. On the way home we stopped at Balandra Bay where Mr Pound & I went swimming. The water was fine, and the beach is a nice long wide one. As we were leaving we met Mrs Patterson and her children. It rained most of the way home. The entire trip was about 150 miles, but we were pretty tired when we got home. 

[[underlined]] Monday, December 16, 1935 [[/underlined]]

Didnt do much all day except write some more on my article for Woman's Home Companion. It is getting in pretty good shape now. In the evening we went to the movies & saw "Upper World", with Warren William & Ginger Rogers. The picture was good, but I'm sure it was cut. 

[[underlined]] Tuesday, December 17, 1935 [[/underlined]]

At 9 o'clock Mrs Adamson came

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by for me and we drove out to Chagnaramas Bay where we were met by Mrs Wharton, Mrs Wall, and two girls who live across the street from Mrs Wharton. We went over to Mrs Wharton's place on Gasparee - an island of the Bocas del Dragon - in the prison launch. Mrs Wall is wife of the Governor of the Prison - I imagine this title in analogous to our "Warden". The Prison island is also one of the islands of the Bocas and only long term prisoners go there. The man who ran the prison launch is a lifer with 3 killings to his credit (he seems to have run amuck one night) and the other two prisoners were long termers. There was a guard with us but he was armed with nothing I could see, except a riding whip. Mrs Wall says that all the prisoners are very good to the children, and really spoil them - especially the little boy. 

The Wharton cottage is situated on the first cove on the opposite side of the island from shore. Many of the large steamers pass right by the cove. That day we saw "The Flandre" of the French line, and the "Cordillera" as well as some freighters. The cove is delightful for swimming.