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St Kitts #24 

some particularly obnoxious individual of their age is pointed out as an example of what they are - "no", they protest, "we dont accept [[underlined]] him [[/underlined]]," [[insertion]] (or her) [[/insertion]], yet they are certain that all of us are like the vulgar young things which attract their attention.
[[margin]] Oct 20 Tues. [[/margin]]
The "Lady Nelson" came in and brought a Mr Maloney [[insertion]] or e [[/insertion]] from Barbados who in turn brought us some mail from Antigua. A letter from Adie & some pictures from Mr Raeburn.
About 9:30 I went over to the library to meet Miss Glegg who was going to show me through the Museum. She had asked Mr King to do the real showing. He came in shortly after we arrived, so she left the 2 of us to go through as we pleased. There is a nice collection of sea weeds made by Miss Glegg. There aren't many other things of real interest, with the possible exception of the historical things.
There is a map on one wall which is supposed to be a reproduction of a map made by one of Columbus' men - his cartographer - on the second voyage. On that map the names of the islands of St Kitts, (San Cristobal) Antigua and other northerly ones appear to be interchanged. For [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] example
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what looks to be the present St Kitts has the name San Martin.
They also have a letter from Mahan U.S.N. (admiral or merely capt.?) to Mrs Wigley, and Mr King acted shocked that I didnt know who he was. Mr King claims that Mahan is a well known American!
Mr King does not think much of Gertrude Atherton as a historian and I did my insignificant best to put him right about [[underlined]] that [[/underlined]]. I certainly believe she knew more about Alexander Hamilton when she wrote "The Conqueror" than Mr King knows when he says that Hamilton was a negro. That is the "British" of it - to depreciate an American hero, in a gossipy way.
In the afternoon I played tennis. This was "make up" day so our four, which consisted of Miss Burt, Miss Simmons (Mrs Delaubanque's sister), Miss Goodall & myself, played together all afternoon.
I was amazed to discover that Miss Burt's brother was an exact replica of "Mr Muskrat" of Trinidad fame (infamy). There must be some relationship too as later on I saw him with the same woman - it must be his mother - as was