Jamaica - 1941. 



Apr* 18-22. On board the United Fruit boat "Talamanca 11 . 

 Left pier 9, North River at 4.00 PM, in clear weather. 

 As soon as we were clear of the slip, I started to hunt 

 for Julia Stewart who was registered as a passenger. 

 She was sitting in a deck chair and failed to recognize 

 me -when I spoke to her. After introducing myself , we got 

 along fine. We arranged to sit at the same table at 

 meals and we got our deck chairs together. We entered th< 

 shuffleboard tournament as partners and won, her prize 

 being a bedroom lamp and mine a combination jigger, ice 

 hammer, bottle opener and corkscrew. The cruise passen- 

 gers were average. 



Apr. 22. Docked at Kingston at 10.45 AM. We were in sight 

 of Morant Light at 5.30 and I stayed on deck til break- 

 fast picking out spots that I could recognize. The 

 mountains were completely enveloped in fog at first but 

 by 7.00 the fog was rising and soon all but the tops of 

 the peaks were clear. Boat stopped at Port Royal to let 

 the immigration officers come aboard. We were divided 

 into two groups, British citizens and aliens. All aliens 

 who had British visas were given landing cards, those 

 without were required to remain on the boat while it was 

 in harbour. Ify Special Passport with courtesy visa from 

 the British Embassy made things very easy and I was told 

 that I would be under no restrictions while on the is- 

 land. I signed a declaration stating that I had no Brit- 

 ish money and 0575.00 in U. S. currency. When I leave 

 the island I will have to sign a declaration that I am 

 taking away from the island no more money than I brought 

 in. There was no one on the dock that I could recognize 

 so I went straight to Customs, saying goodbye to Julia 

 who goes on tt& Cristobal to meet Dale who is coming up 

 from Peru. First I put through a telephone call to the 

 Hope station but Edwards was out. Then I called the Jam- 

 aica Institute and made contact with C. Bernard Lewis, 

 Curator of Natural History. We arranged that he would 

 call for me at 1.30 PM with his car. Pretty soon my 

 baggage was all together and the inspection was made. 

 My camera, which had been taken from me before we entered 

 British territorial waters, was returned and I was told 

 what I would have to do about films before I could leave 

 the island. All was very pleasant, even the reporter 

 from the Gleaner who asked for a statement as to my 

 attitude on an ff all out aid to Britain" policy. I man- 

 aged to sidestep the issue. Waited about an hour for 

 Lewis, who arrived on time and with my baggage in his 

 car we left for the Institute. He had a meeting at 3.00 

 and I wandered about Kingston renewing my acquaintance 



