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Haiti 1.

Because of the delay of the plane at San Juan, the P.A.A. agent at Port-au-Prince assured us that they wold pay our hotel bills. We had our choice of hotels and of course picked the Sans Souci. Mr. Woolley no longer represents any of the hotels, but there was a young German named Silbermann who was a sort of contact man for the San Souci. He took us up to the hotel, where we were given a nice corner suite-sitting room, bedroom, and bath. As we had had practically nothing since breakfast, we asked for tea, and got it.
About 6:00 we sent a card up to Mr. Barnes, who had been resting. He came down soon, quite surprised to see us, but very cordial. He is much the same as usual, hasn't been playing much cribbage lately, but says that business has been fairly good and should be better soon.
He told us that Mr. Barker has gone to Washington to the Bureau of Plant Industry (cotton investigations). Audant is still at the Service Technique, and there've been no "obvious" naturalists in Haiti since we left.
The trip from San Pedro had left our stomachs feeling a little unsettled, so we had a rather light dinner.

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Haiti 2, final.

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After dinner we met Mr. Matson whom Ruth had met the year before while I was away. He is connected with the telephone companies in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. We discussed the toll bridges in the D.R., the new 1/4 size Washington monument created at the 1 year anniversary of the change of name of the capital to Cuidad Trujillo. He said the roads across are in fairly good shape, but still no bridges in Haiti. He told us that the Spanish government had placed orders for the complete reorganization and rebuilding of their telephone system just before the rebellion started. Of course the men had to be recalled and the job abandoned.
We met Mrs. Barnes for the first time. She is not much like "Ralph" - rather sophisticated. 
We went to bed early as the plane is scheduled for an early departure tomorrow.

I-21-37 We were called at 5 A.M. and were down to breakfast at 5:30. Mr. Barnes came down to see us off. The P.A.A. agent came by for us himself, and the plane left on time at 6:30. We saw little of Haiti, but did get a good view of the desert surface of Gonave Island. It is very forbidding.