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Puerto Rico 40.

I-17-37 Sunday. Packing occupied nearly all our time. We have several more bundles to send home, and the two tanks to go to Jamaica. We are managing to get along with the dunnage bag, and have put the radio in the trunk so that we can have the box to take on in plane.

Wrote a letter to Mrs. Willis telling about the trunk and our mail notice. Finished the revision of the journal indexes.

I-18-37 Finished packing the trunk and sent it off. We packed the suitcases except for the last few things and weighed them. The results showed us with about $20 worth of excess baggage! In the afternoon we took two packages of books (stamp catalog and journals) and two tanks to be mailed to Jamacia. These cost $4.16, but one tank was too heavy and had to go by freight on the Horn Line. The minimum bill of lading was $5.10. Awfully high.

We went to Padin's for ice cream at tea-time. In the evening I started the index for this volume of the journal. (This ink is Skrip Washable Blue. I don't like the color, but Ruth couldn't get the Permanent Royal Blue that I prefer.). Our packing is so nearly finished that we find time dragging. We're even finished all our magazines to save weight.

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I-19-37 Our last day here. We went to town to mail three more packages home, cash our last Travelers Cheque, and pay the Express on the trunk ($9.57). I stopped at Bailey's to give her the ownership certificate of the motor. She says she has had one offer, but turned it down because it was for time payments, which means no payments after the down payment!

Ruth didn't feel very well. She spent the afternoon writing letters, and I started a recapitulation of our whole trip.

From Mrs. McDermott we learned that they have given up El Yunque Tavern. It was too expensive even before the recent slides.

About tea time the P.A.A. office phoned that the plane will be late tomorrow. Probably 10 A.M.

I-20-37 Got up about seven, had breakfast at the Tavern, said goodbye to Mrs. McDermott, and sat down to wait. The P.A.A. office phoned that the plane would leave about 11:15, but I asked that the car come for us so we could wait at the airport. We arrived there about ten o'clock, saw the landing of the clipper from Miami, and with its crew took off at about 12:30 P.M. We had had to wait for the other plane, which had been delayed so long by