Cow® a and I left tha Caribaa at 0850 for a field trip itm. Qrm Islet, St. Lucia, 
north. Thla is a very dry part of the island. We went through thorny scrub bush 
on our way to a distant hill which we hoped would he forested. After try in.; to find 
a short cut, we were forced hack on the road by the thorny underbrush. We walked 
through the Cap Estate, where we saw sense very modern machinery at work harrowing, 
the soil. Hi® estate was in the hands of the U S 0»©vt. during World Mar II and 
an army base was located there. We walked up Host du Cap at the north end of the 
estate. We found black top roads and s water line going up the hill with fire plugs, 
at intervals, made in Philadelphia- At the top of lout du Cap were the remnants of 
the arm y base. At the very top was & gun inplacemant for the very large coastal 
artillary. the base must have been 50’ in diameter with a rlta bearing a massive 
gear ring. 
Tit® Cap Satst® had recently changed hands and the new owner , is addition to 
clearing the land, had cleared the brush from along the water line going up the hill. 
There was a series of ponds with water la them but m mosquitoes found. Undoubtedly 
they were for the stock ranging there. 
The area was rich in Lepidoptera and I spent tie*® collecting butterflies. Hy 
prise specimen was a black sad yellow swallowtail In perfect condition, collected 
on top of the Mount. 
So walked beck down through a banana planting sad called in at the estate house 
for water but no one was there, lie inspected the ruins of a fort, or fort- ilka 
structure but could find no information oa it. He returned to the ship about 1300 
cad spent the afternoon working ©a cultures end mounting the day's catch. 
That evening we had dinner m quests of the ship's captain at Josset Legh’a 
Cabana. 
