154 Cannovan. 13 June, 1891 My accounts will be put with is. On the beach below the house, the sea which lately encroached on the land, has cut down a bank about 8 feet high and disclosed a lot of broken earthen pottery. The place was evidently a kitchen midden, and my visit (it in company with Mr Balfour, our most interesting I picked up), resulted dug out two pieces of pottery which brought away with me. Mr Snagg showed us some old medical journals of the older proprietors, and they were very curious. One of them is kept by a D.R. Klein, who resided in Cannovan and used to visit Cannovan periodically. Then are several notices showing that yaws existed on the island as late as 1837. In the same journal several cases of syphilis are prescribed for, so that in those days the two diseases were recognized and differentiated. In 1826 D.R. Klein wrote the following interesting prescription for depythy: "Take of Castor Oil F; Gum Arabic in powder Fijj; Sugar Fj; Laudanum 40 drops Mixt Water Fjj. A tablespoonful every hour". This is the treatment I frequently adopt in small-pox cases now. Cotton is cultivated on the island and the crop is about 600 bales. It is ginned by a machine powered wind well. Maize and pigeon peas are also cultivated in the island as in Union Island. 155 Cannovan. 13 June, 1891. After lunch which we had in "the Court House" close by the landing place, I went off to the schooner with Mr Balfour or I had a headache. The so-called Court House is a small building with two rooms, and in one, when D.R. held his court, left a good deal of the space was taken up by a large picnic net. As Balfour & I were being pulled off we saw the large black fin of a shark pass above the net. I remained aboard some time chatting with me. He had formerly been a naval officer, but left the service on account of ill health. He happened to meet Mr "Old Snagg" who took an eye to him and invited him many years ago to visit the island. His bedstead is still there. He has married one of the ladies of the Snagg family and was her son interest in the estate. He is a very nice fellow, and he gave me some interesting geological specimens collected on the island. One of them was like pickeryphol. I leave at 4 p.m. for Musquim and owing to contrary winds we had to make long tacks, and so did not reach our destination until 5 o'clock next morning. I had a good sleep hence and woke up quite well with headache completely gone.