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9.3.39

Quite hot, but today cloudy. Most of our nasturtiums in flower & everything else growing rapidly. Mosquitoes rather bad. M. Simont uses blood, in considerable quantities (which he can get as he is a butcher) for manuring the orange trees.

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31.10.38

Ditto. One egg. Inside bad again. Fruit on sale here much resembling a strawberry, but full of pips & has an unpleasant sour taste. Put paraffin on water in the fountain yesterday. About 30 square feet, & about a cupful … Continue reading

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27.10.38

On Tuesday afternoon (25th) tremendous rain, much as in the tropics except that it was very cold rain. Everything has flooded feet deep, the earth not yet dry. The Oued Tensift is now quite a considerable stream & low ground … Continue reading

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September 15, 1938

Caught a water-tortoise, about 8” long, outside the small zoological gardens here (evidently it had not escaped from within, though of the same kind as those kept inside.) It was in an irrigation ditch, swimming against the current & only … Continue reading

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