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the boat must be taken up soon and of course Dick can f t 

 afford to pay for four passages home at the same time* 

 I went to the bank (Bank of llova Scotia) to get cash 

 to pay my bills at Mrs Wooler f s and the Lindo f s as well 

 as to do a little necessary shopping* Went to Hender- 

 son^ for hardware. Bought two more cutlasses, at one 

 and nine each, two knives at five and six each and a 

 heavy outdoors knife for Elsie Brown at nine shillings. 

 After lunch we started for Bath by way of Easington and 

 Trinityville. The Yallahs river was very low and the 



fords were all open. 

 It is hard to believe 

 that if they had a 

 hard rain in the Blue 

 Mountains, the Yallahs 

 would become a raging 

 torrent in a few min- 

 utes. Just upstream 

 of the present bridge 

 at Easington are the 

 remains of an old sus- 

 pension bridge dating 

 from the Spanish occu- 

 pation. The two pylons 

 are still standing and 

 the notches in their 

 tops for the three 

 cables are plainly 

 visible. The bridge 

 floor was at the level 

 of the gateways cut 

 through the pylons. 

 As we approached Bath 

 we noticed a stream 

 cutting across the road 

 that looked like good 

 The valley of the Yallahs. collecting. We stopped 



and took some fine 

 water beetles, including many dytiscids. Almost as good 

 a haul as we made from the small pond in the pasture 

 near May Pen. .'We ate tea and turned the car around as 

 it was getting late. With the net up we ran back a few 

 miles. Here we turned off of the Cedar Valley (Trinity- 

 ville) road and went down to Morant Bay, following the 

 Morant River, and then along the coast road to Kingston. 

 Thirteen miles out of town we came across three girls in 

 a broken down car. We took a message to an officer at 

 the Up Park Camp barracks. 



3. Spent the morning putting away the catch of the 

 last few days. Also wrote up some of the notes that 



