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the bed also contained "missus' things," 

 and the big cockroaches rattled around 

 in them all night, to the disturbance 

 of our slumbers. We had to use the 

 bed by day for a work-table, having 

 also a little folding table that we car- 

 ried with us, which we could tightly 

 squeeze between bed and bureau, and 

 upon which we washed out our sea- 

 weeds for mounting. It was very ludi- 

 crous, when using this folding table, to 

 have to scramble out over the bed 

 covered with specimens to get to the 

 door, or to close our jalousied win- 

 dows when a heavy shower came 

 beating in. 



Little maids came in every morning 

 while we were off collecting and scrubbed 

 the floor, using a dark colored tea 

 made of mangrove bark, the scrub- 

 bing brush being a cross section of a 

 cocoanut gathered before ripening. We 



