and a fternoon with the livestock 
April 12. Barbados. 
Bill Shippen came to our cabin early this morning to report 
that he had been out in the animal quarters and. the male buffalo 
had managed to turn himself around in his cage, so that feeding 
and watering were going to be difficult. Both Bills worked with 
the animals f or an hour, and then we went ashore. 
Ve had been here eight years before, but little has changed. 
There is a slight decrease in the amount of annoyance to which 
tourists are subjected by beggars and street vendors, but not much. 
Colored mammies call Bill "Sweetheart" and "Dear", and beg him to 
buy their grapefruit. We went first to the post office to send 
letters home, and then to the Ice House, where Bill bought 
bananas and papayas for his livestock. Upstairs in the Ioe House 
is a restaurant, w hich has been refurnished with metal-tubing 
modernistic chairs and tables since our last visit. Here we sat on 
the verandah, drinking planters’ punches, and watching the life in 
the streets below. ¥omen carry incredible bundles on their heads, 
walking fle.t-footed and swaying slightly under baskets of oranges 
and grapefruit and tomatoes, balancing cords of firewood, or a 
tall metal container, like a water-cooler , with mauby, a drink, v/e 
were told, made from bitter bark and diluted with water and syrup. 
Ve took a car over to the Aquatic Club, passing, on the 
way the house where George Washington stayed. Bill S.» Frances 
and I went swimming, and sat on the beach for a five-minute sunburn 
sufficient to turn me bright scarlet . The water was not as clear 
as when we were here before; I had promi sed Frances a wonderful 
view of marine life through the crystal w r ater . but there wras quite 
a swell, and the water, though perfect as to temperature, v;as roiled 
a,nd sea-weedy. 
Back to the Ice Hois e f or lunch, we ate fried flying g ish, 
small, boneless and delicious, cou-cou (A soggy mass of cornmeal 
and okra. 
Ve did a i ew errands in the afternoon, bought linen handker- 
chiefs, bay rum, feeding pans for the animals, Scotch whisky at 
vl.25 a bottle and rum at 6C cents, and drank green swizzles at 
the Flying Fish Club for nine cents each. Then back to the Uruguay 
where diving boys clamored, not for pennies but for quarters, until 
the ship sailed at 5 o’clock. 
