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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