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were very nationalistic la their Attitude and were looking to the day when they 
would be independent of the baited Kingdom. He p eased several breaches #1 the 
Ir«nus liver, then breaches of the Bloody lay liver farther up the aountein, the 
a&ricuitur© officer told us that the forest Reserve he® 141 ladies of rain annually. 
Mosquito larvae war© collected fro* loaf filled pool, Hciicoaia. flowers, Bromeliads, 
slow moving streamlet along, side o£ road, pal® apaths; otter Insects were collected 
along the trace. Bowses carried the butterfly net sad collected insects, including 
a beautiful Horpho Better fly. One time he was so energetically chasing a Butterfly 
that he fell down the aids of fell® ©ousts ia shout 20 feet with a crash, la the 
process he lost one cyanide jer, except for the lid* Be mm ml hurt. 
When we reached the crest of the mountain, wo came to she point where we ted 
collected on April 4, the first day on the island, so we wooed m faster. We 
reached the road building operation which was two jsilee frets Roxborough about 1530 
and Cowes* was anxious to reach that paint Before 1600 to inquire about sell. He 
asked if e construction track was going to town end it was so w® hopped on. After 
stopping for petrol we started a wild rids, in which the driver was obviously trying 
to sear® the whit® passenger®, Me wade it to the po&t office in ti$a® ate alter until 
check, e bus bound lor Scarborough pulled up, eo va rod® it back. The fare was 72$ 
each, awl, A taxi took us out to Sandy Bay, a distance of 8 miles free Scarborough. 
Wo ted walked about 9 Elies, &t which et least & ted been uphill, although the trace 
ff«a Parlatuvier tec been so constructed that the ascent was fairly gradual, the 
bed felt very good that night. 
