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call [[red underlined]] "Areca Turgescens" [[/red underlined]] called here [[red underlined]] "Sugar Cane Palms, [[/red underlined]] because its branched trunks, remind of the shape of sugar cane.ͯ 
[[left margin]] ͯ Called in Demerara Botanic Gardens = Chrysalidocarpus lutescens [[/left margin]]
In all the markets in these islands, saw ^[[live] [[bold red underlined]] land crabs [[/bold red underlined]] offered for sale. - [[red underlined]] Same crabs [[/red underlined]] as we have in Coconut Grove. But they [[red underlined]] are tied by their claws [[strikethrough]] so that [[/strikethrough]] in bunches so that they cannot run away. - Would be a good thing if in Florida they were used for food [[/red underlined]] as this [[red underlined]] might diminish their [[/red underlined]] overabundance and the harm they do to our plants.
[[underlined]] Aug 28. [[/underlined]] At sea towards [[red underlined]] Demerara. [[/red underlined]] - ͯͯ
[[left margin]] ͯ 8 P.M. a radio = Mrs. Williams wishes sell 30 more shares same price. [[/left margin]]
[[underlined]] Aug 29. [[/underlined]] Arrived [[red underlined]] Georgetown British Guiana (Demerara) [[/red underlined]] in Demerara River at anchor about 6 A.M. Very [[red underlined]] turpid yellow stream, [[/red underlined]] shallow. Flat lands. Sugar Cane etc.
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[[left margin in red, underlined]] Demerara  [[/left margin in red, underlined]]
Tied up one one of the many wooden wharves and storehouses wood + corrugated iron.
Busy town with same mixture of all colored raced and a few whites.
[[strikethrough]] Took [[/strikethrough]] Started early visit to Botanic Gardens and agricultural station. Broadly planned on flat ground nutritious yellowish red soil and fresh water ditches crossing everywhere. Stately [[red underlined]] trees of every kind. [[/red underlined]] Here again [[double red underlined]] saw no Banyans [[/double red underlined]] but Several very large [[red underlined]] Ficus Benjamini [[/red underlined]] with enormous adventive roots growing in same ways as Banyan except for the much larger leaves of Banyan. Saw [[red underlined]] large sized [[/red underlined]] [[bold red underlined]] Manatees [[/bold red underlined]] in the fresh water ponds who came to feed on border grass. Size about same as the one that
[[left margin]] Answered to office = Do not want to buy let others bid [[/left margin]]