Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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Grenada 15 May, 1891. advantage of thrift habits. Cwm Gwilt, the Austrian Chapman, who is the Superintendent of the school, and I tinto a note in the visitors book, advising that the children should be taught the meaning of the word 'fear' road. After having Santinus we called on Mr J Bennett, very nice fellow, who volunteers as St lunch. He is an amateur photographer and he showed me some of his photos which are very well taken. He has a small South American monkey which is a charming little fellow, and he gave me a capital photograph behind taken of it. He is a bit of a naturalist, and he has a collection of his insects. The 'Chiguan' he told me is called the 'Four and twenty hours' Spider because its bite is very powerful for that time, and that the 'Thermos', or 'walking stick insect', is called the 'God-home'. In Dominica it is called 'Cherel bon Dieu'. On the Monli Estate, near his home, he had often seen a white 'black bird' (Cryptophagus Auri). Albinos in birds are very rare, and it is a pity this one cannot be secured for the British Museum. He also told me that C. Auri, called the 'Cobean' in Grenada, was not seen in the island until after the last hurricane some 36 years ago, and that Mr Wells states that it was blown to Grenada from Tobago during the hurricane.