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Feb. 12* Left this morning about 9 AM for Derry. The trunk 

 will stay at Mrs Wooler f s since Ruth is holding the room 

 while we are away. I have given up my room but hope to 

 get it back when I return* First we go to Mendez Pen to 

 pick up Mrs Bovell. She was at Don f s place (bananas now 

 but they hope to make it over into a dairy farm later) 

 and we found it without difficulty, Ruth went with us and 

 will stay with us until we go to Kensworth. Ruth and Dick 

 took the Fiat and I went with Mrs Bo veil in her Ford* The 

 road was first back to Old Harbour and then west through 

 May Pen and Four Paths to Toll Gate where we left the main 

 road (to Porus). Had lunch a little way down this road 

 where it crosses Milk River and then up Figuraray Gully 

 to a side road that goes by Kensworth* We stopped there 

 long enough to see that it was habitable and then pushed 

 on to Mandeville. Here we did a bit of shopping for pro- 

 visions, postage stamps etc. From Mandeville, which is 



Derry House, from the east. 



a reasonably large town and very attractive, we took the 

 road through Mile Gully and turned off just before reach- 

 ing Comfort Hall on a side road that led to Derry House. 

 Derry is an old plantation now owned by Philip Bovell and 

 occupied by the Savariau sisters and the servants. Her- 

 manse Savariau isf the older of the two and handles the 

 servants and runs the place. Mary, a few years younger, 

 (both appear to be in the region of seventy) is a born 

 naturalist who should never have been prevented from tak- 

 ing up serious work along the lines of anatomy or taxonomy. 

 Born fifty years too early, she would certainly have done 

 it in this age. She has collected f£S» B. Preston Clark 

 and others. Both are very pleasant and they will make it 

 easy for us in every way. The present Derry House is not 



