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I finished & went to see Dr. Ireland but he was out - I desired tea then but found I hadn't a bean on me - All the same I blew in at the tea room & told them how badly I needed refreshment but they'd have to give me the necessary credit which they promptly did – 9d for aft t here - Refreshed I then went for a walk – on my own – right round the harbor for a mile or more - I spotted a brilliant Kingfisher & a slate colored crane & lots of Indian starlings – the mongoose is wiping out bird life in Fiji I am told -The plant life – trees, shrubs – herbs all interested me – Clerodendrons – Mangrove of the shiny laurel leaf kind – A very prickly shrub with lots of white flowers – a Solanum – Lantana - Palms here are dying – some disease apart from insects affects them - I told you Albyzias do splendidly here - I walked & observed & listened to the boom of the surf on the reef -
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