Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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St Vincent. 16 June, 1891. so that they are fairly comfortable. The boat can carry about fourteen passengers and a lot of cargo - the cargo, principally passengers' baggage, and supplies for residents along the coast, is heaped up in the bows to considerable heights above the gunwale. and it appeared to me to be unsafe that I got my tin box which was perched on top of the pile at the bottom of the boat. I'm told, however, that it is an uliigo and that there's no chance of anything going overboard. On getting to Walldaloa Bay, a friend was waiting with a chair for me, and drove up to the house, about half a mile from the shore. At the house I was met by Mr Duncan McDonald and his mother and welcomed by them - Luke or Mr Fyfe McDonald came in. They are all very pleasant and strove to make my stay comfortable. The house is a nice one, but rather small. So there is an addition and another building close by in which Mr Fyfe sleeps and in which is the guest chamber to which I was put up! The building is covered with the ivy fern. F. repens, and it looked nice and cool. Below the house on the slope is a garden with many fruit trees, and after nutmeg. There was a fine Java plum with large delicious fruits next, and behind the house was a small cocoa plantation. The principal cultivation of the estate is arrowroot, and the machinery is the best in the island, and the produce fetches the best price in the market. I spent every pleasant evening