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the cook house there is a large breadfruit tree and 



Feb. 



Breadfruit tree at Derry* 



all around the estate are various specimen trees of 

 the more unusual species* 



As soon as we had our luggage taken to our rooms 

 dinner was called and we sat down at a nearly full 

 table. The large dining room and the adjacent game 

 room are floored with breadnut, a native tree whose 

 wood resembles ebony. The flooring is in random widths 

 showing both dark heart wood and nearly white sap wood 

 and the effect as laid is striking and very beautiful. 

 Each week the floor is polished by one of the servants. 

 A half coconut husk is packed full of orange peel and 

 serves as the scrubbing brush. After a weekly scrub- 

 bing for nearly a century the floor has a fine luster 

 and a hard surface that can stand even hobnails with- 

 out scratching. After dinner we went out and caught 

 a few peenies and then to bed. 



13. Started out back of the house and stopped first 

 to open a termitarium of Nasutitermes sp. Found the 

 queen cell was in a crotch where we couldn f t get at it 

 so couldn't look for guests. Took some ants and cara- 

 bids under stones in the roadway and some aphodiines 

 under dung in the pasture. The ants were the kind that 

 have long mandibles that click audibly when the ants 

 are disturbed (Odontomachus haematoda (L.) ?). Came 

 back to the house for lunch and after lunch went to 

 the temporary pond north west of the house. Found a 

 colony of Nasutitermes that was swarming and got a 

 good series of winged forms as well as the queen. In 



