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Eventually I decided that it is not worth my time (or, more importantly, my money) to call long distance to HI from the hotel - I may as well call ld from the comfort of my own home, so I will put off calling the methodist minister a while longer.

This is probably for the best, as it wound up taking me much much longer to get my mailing done than I'd intended. There was something of a fetch quest involved, and I think I was at the post office about four times. So, if you get Bahamas mail from me, you'd better appreciate it ;)

I had subway for lunch again (it is relatively cheap, and close), and then headed to the archives,. As i said, there wasn't anything I *needed* to find at this point, but a few things I wanted to see. I would up copying the proclamation from 1788 (I think) when the king officially bought out all the Proprietary land claims. This is a nice bit of closure for me, since I like the proprietary period and the lasting chaos they inflicted on land tenure. It is also interesting because it gave anyone who had a grant from the proprietors or their leasees (that would be Woodes Rogers or the Bahama Company) a yer to show (and thus validate) their claim, or their land would be declared officially vacant and thus could be granted again to someone else. n I shoul say that there were place, I think mostly on Harbour Island and Eleuthera, where the land was never actually officially granted. People just always lived there. The other helpful thing I found was the grant to lord Dunmore (who was governor) for the town of Dunmore on HI. See above re: 'vacant' land, chaotic land tenure, etc. It was actually a grant to Lord Dunmore 'and some 130 others', which I found interesting. Anyway, I now have read it, I have notes, all is good. The other thing I found that is interesting but not important at all is the articles of the surrender of the islands to Spain under Maxwell in 178...something. I didn't write it down, but I had wanted to see it, and to see what all was recorded during the brief Spanish period. The answer: not much. Of course they were only there about a year max...

It was raining when I walked back from the archives. It wasn't raining hard though, so I wasn't actually wet. It was sort of, not nice maybe, but fitting? last year there was a downpour every afternoon as I headed home, but this was the first time my whole trip where it's rained much while I was outside. It sprinkled a bit when I was at Preacher's Cave, I suppose. So, the second, then.

I treated myself to some cocnut maccaroon ice cream, in a sugar cone (it is always ice cream weather), then came back to the room to unwind a bit. Headed out for dinner eventually. Still aiming on the cheap side, I went to Sbarro, where I got some curry. It was surprisingly spicy for fast food, and I think that an American joint wouldn't have been as accepting of all the bones in the chicken. But hey, that's curry! It was pretty good, in any case.

And then, a night in. I'd planned to go out wandering some along the beach, but it was still inda blah and rainy, so I came home, chatted, watched some internet videos and packed. And now I'm showered and lying in bed and my alarm is set, and I think I'm good to go tomorrow! I should go to sleep, but I'm still puttering about the internet.... sooon.