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St. Croix 18.

After dinner we had a call from Dr. and Mrs. Hughes. Before they had been here long, the hospital phoned for the doctor, and he had to leave. He invited me to come and see the hospital, so I went along. We found that two Puerto Ricans had been fighting. One had a small stone cut on his forehead that took 2 stitches. The other had been properly cut up with a razor. First the doctor put in 17 sutures to close a huge gash running from the shoulder down across the chest. When he had finished, the nurse turned the man over and showed a still larger cut running down his back for [[double underlined]] 10 [[/underlined]] inches. It took 23 stitches! Then four more to close a gash on the forehead. 44 sutures altogether. They were of course put in without any anaesthetic, but were obviously painful. The man stood the [[underlined]] two [[/underlined]] hours of "sewing" remarkably well. 
We got back to the house about midnight, and gave the doctor a glass of beer before he left. Ruth had found several mutual friends in Mexico with Mrs. Hughes. They were there [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] at a northern mining town. See Ruth's journal for specific account.
This was my first experience in an operating room. I got quite tired of standing.

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Rode over to Christiansted to make definite arrangements with the Bull Line agent. He had a reservation for us on the 25th, but was full for the 28th. He said I could take the motor uncrated, for about $8.00, could land in St. Thomas for the day on Sunday. The passage is $10.00 apiece. I finally decided to change the reservation to Dec. 5th.
Went up to the hospital to find Beatty. We decided to go out in the afternoon and he invited me to lunch. As I had no collecting things I decided I'd have to come back to Frederiksted, and so I did. Had lunch and changed my clothes, and rode back to Christiansted.
We went east along the north coast as far as Southgate Estate, then followed a private "road" down around the Southgate Pond to the beach at
[[underlined]] Station 326. [[/underlined]]
Beach at Chenay Bay, near Southgate Pond, 3 miles northeast of Christiansted. From under the abundant seaweed took 6 Staphs (all [[underlined]] Cafius [[/underlined]], of three distinct sizes), 26 Carabidae, 18 minute Dryopidae, 3 Byrrhidae, 1 Tenebrionid, larvae, pseudoscorpions, and ants.
[[underlined]] Station 327. [[/underlined]] 
Southgate Estate, about 3 miles east of Christiansted. From dung took 14 Staphs ([[underlined]] Oxythelus [[/underlined]]