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April 23. Lewis called for me at 6.45 AM and I was ready. 

 Went first to the Institute to pick up two Cayman Island 

 negroes, Norris and Mac. These were two of Lewis 1 help 



Mrs. D. and Faith. Dick Doubleday. 



during his expedition to the Caymans. Then the four 

 of us drove to Old Harbour Bay, through Spanish Town 

 and Old Harbour. While the others were unloading the 

 car, I stepped back into the bush and collected a 

 colony of Crematogaster from a hollow branch. We packed 

 our few supplies about three hundred yards to the shore 

 where the launch was waiting. Before going aboard, we 

 went up shore to look at a young manatee that a fisher- 

 man had brought in. It was still alive and looked to 

 be in good health so Lewis arranged to buy it for the 

 Instituted zoo. Leaving shore, we first came abreast 

 of Little Goat Island, already cleared for occupation. 

 The barracks have been built but is not yet occupied 

 because of the plague of sand flies. Great Goat has 

 been surveyed but no great amount of clearing has been 

 done yet. We landed at about the middle of the east 

 side and dumped most of our stuff. So far as Lewis is 

 concerned, the object of the trip was (l) to collect 

 living specimens of the Jamaican Iguana ( Cvclura jamai- 

 censis) and (2) to cut sample logs of various species of 

 native hardwoods. This island is the last stand of the 

 Iguana and when the occupation of the island is completed 

 by the U. S. Navy there won f t be any lizards left nor 

 many trees. There is a path, though a very rough one, 



