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long way around through Newport. 



Feb* 26 . Breakfast at 8 AM, after which we packed the 

 car for the trip to Kingston* We paid the servants 

 for a week and a half, so they cost us an even guinea* 

 I also gave the Boy three pence for the lizards that 

 he dug out of the wall* Instead of going back over 

 the same road that we first came over (with Mrs. Bo- 

 vell), we went through Newport, Mandeville, Porus and 

 Toll Gate* Between Porus and Toll Gate we stopped by 

 the Milk River to look for dryopids. Didn*t find any 

 but did get badly stung by ants while tearing a rotten 

 banana trunk to pieces. Next stop was at a small pond 

 by the roadside, one mile east of May Pen (23 mi. west 

 of Spanish Town. There was good sweeping around the 

 shore and in the water we got many water beetles and 

 bugs. The pond was just full of water fern ( Marsilea 

 quadrifolia L.)* This pond was out in the full sun in 

 a pasture* Two miles further down the road we found 

 another pond, this one in the woods. Took a series of 

 a Dineutes which was different from the one we found 

 near Gordontown. Also caught a few small fish*** Dick 

 found some dung that yielded a large number of staphs, 

 aphodiines, sphaeridiines and histerids* No more stops 

 for collecting and we reached Half Way Tree in time to 

 bathe and dress for dinner. I can f t live at the Wooler f s 



The Lindo's, 6 Cargill Ave., Half Way Tree. 



now as my room has been taken so I will eat and sleep 

 across the street at the Lindo f s. One compensation is 

 hot water for baths. After dinner we went to see the 

 movie "The Ghost Goes West. 11 , very light and funny. 



+ Gambit* ftV+^iti&m fie4*o. 



