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iarjorie is the assistant agronomist and, according 

 to IJiss Eermanse, draws four hundred pounds a year 

 which is a very good wage on the island* Joan went 

 elsewhere for dinner and Marjorie and I dined alone. 

 We talked about sugar, the future of civilization, 

 art and books until 10 PM. I found my way back to 

 Windsor where I stirred up all of the dogs. Bed# 



May 16. Started about 8.30 for Bluefields Bay. First 

 ran a mile or so up the Beeston Springs road to a 

 good parking space. Collected in dead stumps and 

 under rocks, getting good series of several species 

 of termites. One large stump was heavily infested 



House at Bluefields Bay, perhaps that of P. A. Gosse. 



with a kalotermitid, perhaps Keotermes castaneus . 

 I collected for myself until I had pickied a good 

 series and then I let the lizards have what was left. 

 Pour or five small lizards came up onto the stump and 

 kept just out of the way of my cutlass, snatching the 

 termites almost out of my fingers. Further up on the 

 hill I found a nice colony of Cryptotermes with queen 

 and also one of Kasutitermes, also with queen. Then 

 down to the main road where I could see a house that 

 is probably the one in which P. A. Gosse lived about 

 1850. It is now the Bluefields Hotel. Ate lunch on 

 the sea wall and collected along the road until 2.30 

 when it started to rain. Returned to Windsor to put 

 up catch and write notes. Continued to rain. Had tea 

 and dinner at Windsor and ran out to Frome about 8 to 



