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for the room and four meals* Tea certainly should 

 count as a meal for there are almost always sand- 

 wiches, cake and tea* We put my baggage away and 

 tea w a s served. 



After tea, I remembered that I had forgotten to 

 leave my stateroom key so we drove down to the dock 

 with it. Then out to Hope Gardens to call on Edwards. 

 Found him busy so we looked around a bit and then went 

 back to the Wooler*s. A very good dinner was served 

 at 7.30 PM and afterward we all sat on the front porch 

 and talked until 11.30 EM. To bed under a mosquito bar. 

 It does not pay to screen houses on the island because 

 the air is mostly damp and salt. So each bed is fitted 

 with its own protective screen. To make the screen, one 

 takes a good sized barrel hoop and attaches short ropes 

 at the ends of the right diagonals. Then a sheet of mos- 

 quito netting is prepared about 25 ft. long by 7 ft. wide. 

 The 25 ft. length is then attached to the hoop with many 

 deep pleats so that it passes one and a half times around 

 The hoop is closed by a circle of cloth, the ropes are 

 drawn up and tied to serve as a support and the whole 

 contraption is suspended above the center of the bed. 

 Yfhen the bed is madeup, the bottom edge of the mosquito 

 net is tucked in under the mattress arid there is a three 

 foot overlap along one side through which the occupant 

 can enter. Properly adjusted, it certainly does keep 

 the skeeters out. 



The lawn at Hope Gardens, looking toward the admin- 

 istration building. The roadway is at the right and 

 is bordered by palms of various species. Other spec- 

 imen trees are planted along the outer border. 



