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After tea we paid a visit to the Hatche[[strikethough]] ' [[/strikethrough]]s at the Rectory. Mr Hatch was in the garden and Mrs Hatch was inside supervising a play and practice of singing. She is such a busy person! We did have time for a nice chat tho' - and we did enjoy our visit. They have two lovely children. While there we had our first drink of Sorrel. It is a juice made out of the calix of a plant allied to the hibiscus. The calix are crushed, sugar ^ [[insertion]] & water [[/insertion]] added, and the whole think boiled. The resulting liquid is a syrup to which water - in our case, soda, [[insertion]] or carbonated [[/insertion]] - is added to make the beverage. It is a most tasty & refreshing drink.

[[underlined]] Wednesday February 5, 1936 [[/underlined]] 
Spent the whole morning writing letters as the mail closes at 3 for the U.S. They seemed to take a half-day holiday to-day as the shops were closed. 
As I finished my book I went to the library to get another. This time I thought I'd make a real job of it so I got "Anthony Adverse" by Hervey Allen. I think I'm going to enjoy it a great deal. 
In the evening after supper Dick 

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and I went to the library. He used the Handbook, while I read the magazines. Then home & to bed fairly early. 
This is one island where we have to use a mosquito net. There are quite a few of them ^ [[insertion]] mos [[/insertion]] flying around in the day time too.

[[underlined]] Thursday, February 6, 1936 [[/underlined]]
When I went to breakfast this morning there was a note for me at my place, saying that there was a registered letter for me at the P.O. Dick left fairly soon after breakfast to be gone most of the day. I went to the Post Office and got the letter. It was the stamps from British Guiana. 
Then I took a walk up to look at the cathedral. It is a nice large building with 3 large stained glass windows. The one above the altar is supposed to have been given by the wife [[insertion]] widow [[/insertion]] of Lt-Governor Dundas. It is not all one window. I believe it is called 3 lancet windows. On either side of the recess of the altar are two more windows. One which was blown in during a recent hurricane, but which has been repaired. The other is a fairly recent one which is supposed to have been made for St. Pauls in London, but