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[[preprinted]] 34 [[/preprinted]] St. Croix 34. 
[[left margin]] XI-29-36 [[/left margin]] Got up a little early in order to catch the eight o'clock bus.  It didn't come, and I finally caught one about 9:15. I found Beatty waiting for me near Adventure. He had changed plans somewhat because of two visitors who came from St. Thomas to shoot deer. We drove along the Southern Road a short distance and waited for the others. They had gone up on a brushy knoll with some dogs. I saw something moving in the bushes near us. It turned out to be a young deer. Beatty got out a rifle, but didn't shoot. It was a strange gun, and he didn't get the sights and safety fixed in time. The deer was about 20 yards away. The hunters finally came back, saying they had shot a deer, but that it had disappeared. The dogs were bloody and Beatty thought there was something wrong. So they went back to look again. This time they found it. It turned out that the two hunters have been here since last Wednesday and now killed three deer. There is a 3 month open season, with limit of six deer. Beatty says the deer are increasing, though they were nearly exterminated a year or two ago by night hunting, - now prohibited. We then went back to Constitution Hill, where Beatty and the others cleaned the deer. 
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When all of this was finished it was lunch time. We had the usual very good and very generous dinner, except that we also that the company of one of Beatty's sisters. She is quite good-looking and pleasant, and gives no hint of any colored blood, such as is rumoured to be present. Harry shows no signs either. 
After lunch time we took the hunters down to go aboard the SS Mary for home. They got their two other deer out of storage. The bishop went on the same boat. Then Beatty and I started out for the Salt River and the north coast. We watched for fungus, etc., but found none. 
[[left margin]] [[circle with 'x' inside]] [[/left margin]] [[Note: Left bracket connecting this and following three lines]] [[underlined]] Station 338 [[/underlined]] (November 1-30, 1936)
Frederiksted, St. Croix.  Flying to light in the hostel. Several Staphs, Scarabs, Aedemerids, and other beetles, chiefly small. Also ticks. 
[[underlined]] Station 339. [[/underlined]]
West side of Sugar Bay. From dung in the roadway took 290 Staphs ([[underlined]] Orcytelus [[/underlined]] - 259, Paederinae - 2, Xantholininae - 23, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 2, Aleocharinae - 4), 10 Sphaeridiinae, 47 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]], and several ants. As we didn't have time to get around to Cane Bay, we went down to the beach at