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St Remy 29 - St Lucia 50 

sugar mills and German railways - before the war. This uncle, Emanuel, died a few days after the Armistice was signed.
About 5 oclock Mrs Devaux and Mme arrived It had just started to rain and I thought from the way they acted that they were prepared to stay in the car until it ^[[insertion]] the rain [[/insertion]] stopped. It is queer how some of these white people seem so deathly afraid of rain.
Mrs Devaux brought me a very pretty little cedar box - made in St Lucia - as a going away present. They are such a very friendly and generous hearted family!
While we were talking, a little messenger girl brought a ^[[insertion]] baby [[/insertion]] dress [[strikethrough]] dre [[/strikethrough]] which Mrs Moffat had ordered made. It was of blue silk embroidered in pastel colors. The handwork was simply beautiful and I was told that it wasn't very expensive. Mrs du B is going to find out the price for me. One can buy, or have made, drawn work cloths of the large bridge size for $3.00 maximum.
     Dick had started packing before supper, while I was entertaining my guests. Therefore, he was all raring to go. We had to finish our packing this evening as we leave early in the morning.
I have had such an enjoyable 

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time in the garden. The roses are just coming into full bloom and I had so much fun cutting them and arranging them for the house. I couldn't begin to name all the flowers & plants Miss du B has in her garden. Some of the commonest are pinks, heliotrope, candy tuft, verbena, coralitas, (this is usually a vine), hydrangea (does not grow very well) begonia (at least 15 varieties) violets, lilies, forget-me-nots, and petunias.
Miss Du Boulay had some new cards & bills made with her name - Miss H. M. Cornibert du Boulay. The reason for this is that some of her Uncles "natural" sons are taking the name upon themselves. As these persons are colored men the family of Cornibert are adding his name to the last to show that they come from the side of the family composed of "gente decente".
To go back to natural science - we had quite a nice variety of fruits and vegetables up here. We had wild raspberries which were not at all like raspberries in flavor, and were rather insipid when eaten raw, but they made a very tasty jelly. We ate stewed paw-paw for the first time. Mamet apple (Mexican Mamey) is called Apricot in Soufrière - or Zabricot (creole).