Wed 12. [12 January 1898] We have been a fortnight on this boat! it certainly does not feel like it. [Pressed flower attached to page] Barbados. A clustering flower growing on a tree, scarlet cordia. The shrubs with variegated leaves are crotons. [Pressed flower] Frangipani - it has a marvellous caterpillar yellow and green, a finger long belonging to it. The yellow accacia looking thing is quassia - the long pod is medicinal. The bearded tree is one of the banyans ficus benjaminii. Very lonely without all the dear gang. Read Arabic and wrote letters all morning. After lunch read Renan and played piquet with M. [Maurice] and then a couple of games of golf, but they had no entrain without Sir William's cheerful enthusiasm. After dinner read, talked to the Purser and played more piquet. So to bed. Sharp rain.