Wed 12. [12 January 1898] We have been a fortnight on this boat! it
certainly does not feel like it. \n\n[Pressed flower attached to page]
Barbados. A clustering flower growing on a tree, scarlet cordia. The
shrubs with variegated leaves are crotons. \n\n[Pressed flower]
Frangipani - it has a marvellous caterpillar yellow and green, a finger
long belonging to it. \n\nThe yellow accacia looking thing is quassia -
the long pod is medicinal. The bearded tree is one of the banyans
ficus benjaminii. \n\nVery 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.