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[[stamped]] 68 [[/stamp]] Puerto Rico 26.

[[margin]] I-2-37 [[/margin]] The rain is well on its way to beat the forty days and forty nights record. The barometer moved over to Fair at noon, but we had only about fifteen minutes of sunshine. It rained hard all afternoon and evening.
   In the morning I wrote letters to Oakley and Danforth to say we would go to Mayaguez on Monday if the rain stopped. I took them to the P.O. and sent them Special Delivery. I went to the bank to cash some Traveler's Cheques, and then to Behn Bros. to get our ss. tickets. Then I went to the Railway Station to find out the time of trains. The ticket man was at lunch (10:45!), so I'll have to come back tomorrow.
   Ruth went to town in the afternoon in spite of the rain. We're both getting very tired of being couped up here so long.
[[margin]] I-3-37 [[/margin]] Sunday. Wedding Anniversary. This is the seventh day and eighth night ^[[of]] continual rain. One hundred and seventy-three hours, with only two ten-minute glimpses of the sun in that time - on the first and sixth days. As usual we stayed in the whole day, trying to decide if we should go to Mayaguez tomorrow. Since we heard yesterday that this rain is restricted to this end of the island, and
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Mayaguez is dry, we decided to go across on the [[underline]] noon [[/underline]] train, not the 7AM. one.
   I spent several hours copying the first part of Ruth's journal (Jamaica-1935) into one of these notebooks to make it confirm with the series. She will then put this year's Jamaica in the same volume, and also the combined index. Her series will then be in [[strikethrough]]six [[/strikethrough]] ^[[five]] volumes. My journal will be finished with the Index - Volume 7, and my Field Notes will run into Volume 2.
   I wrote a letter to the American Consul in Cuidad Trujillo - another one, to say we're [[underline]] not [[/underline]] coming!
[[margin]] I-4-37 [[/margin]] To town early to telegraph to Oakley that we would be on the [[underline]] afternoon [[/underline]] train. Then I went to Mr. Thompson's office to tell him of our decision to go on the SS Kungsholm. Then I stopped at Mrs. Bailey's to leave a message for the man who may buy the motor. She wanted me to bring the motor to leave with her, but after trying vainly for half an hour to attach the sidecar alone, I gave it up.
   We had lunch at the Miramar at twelve, and took the bus down to the Station. The train was about fifteen minutes late in starting, and was rather full at first.