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[[underline]] Friday January 31, 1936 [[/underline]]
At seven we were awakened by the maid who brought us our orange juice. We went out to the dining room for breakfast.
After breakfast we discussed rates with Mrs. Davis. She had asked 10s a night a piece ($2.40) yet in the morning she made us a rate of $40 a piece a month--quite a reduction--yet a price to be expected on most of the islands. At this price we each have a room, and if we shared a room it would be $5.00 a month less. It wasn't worth it as the rooms are small.
The rest of the morning was spent unpacking and Dick went down for his motor. 
After tea--which was a good Tea, with cake etc--Dick & I went for a little walk. We went thru' the market place and back thru' a poor quarter near the sea. Then we went up Halifax St. past the P.O. and Public Library. Then back to the hotel which is just a block from these two. 
They seem to have a number of 
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[[preprinted]] 83 [[/preprinted]]churches in town--more than St Georges. We passed the Anglican, Wessleyn, Catholic, Gospel, & Scots Kirk. The first 3 are quite large. We also passed the War Memorial and the Thompson Home (for the relief of destitute ladies) 
Didn't do much but read, this evening. To bed fairly early. 
[[underline]] Saturday, February 1, 1936 [[/underline]]
This morning I went to the Post Office, where I mailed Dorothy Jackson's letters of introduction to Mrs. R. H. Hatch, at the Rectory & Miss Louie Fraser. I also bought some stamps & to all appearances they are still using the old issue last named in Scott's. 
Then I went to the Library. Their library is nothing to compare with the one in Grenada. They have a nice collection of Carib stories, which I didn't have time to look at very carefully. This is a Carnegie Free Library yet one has to pay a monthly fee for borrowing--6 d a month. Their books of Biography & History are carefully locked up. Their Fiction is on shelves, but I doubt whether they have 500 volumes in all on the