Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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132 lluni. 11 June, 1891. manners entertained me by showing me a scrap book in which cheeky jest with ridiculous dropped and tawdry pictures with sentences written by Bishop of Bradeson and Antigua and often prints of weirs & influence who had doubts been asked to write one- thng in the book on their visit to the place. The Church has smell and poor looking, and, altogether, poverty has stamped on everything in the island. Dulyrple and I made an almost hour to house kitchen and I found several cases of yaws which the people called "mangey" or itch." One woman told me that the disease was very bad a few years ago. She said it was "a bad sickness, and is nearly kill all de people some year ago." One woman who was very bad has had the disease 4 years. On riding back I botanised along the road and found the following plants in addition to them mentioned- 1. Fernwood. 2. Yellow flowered Opuntia. 3. Creeping cactus. 4. Aloe Babulensis. 5. Cuscuta americana. 6. Coffea amygdalana. 7. C. Cyraphallophora. 8. Helianthus Croton. 9. Solanum aculeata. 10. Albizzia lebbeck. 11. Acacia Farnesiana. 12. Anacyclus erla. 13. Heliandron- apophytic cactus. 14. A. Malevo montana. 15. Argemone