6 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM BOTANY, VOL. 2. 



San Domingo which we reached on the morning of the 24th. 

 I tobk a carriage and spent the day driving about the environs of 

 the city (769-883). In the early evening we sailed for Port Antonio, 

 on the northeast coast of Jamaica, which we reached on the morn- 

 ing of the 26th. From here a trip was made to Kingston by 

 rail, which afforded me a valued opportunity to visit the Hope 

 Botanical Gardens, and meet the genial Mr. William Fawcett, 

 Director of the Public Gardens and Plantations, but left no time for 

 collecting as we returned to Port Antonio at noon the following 

 day. The 2gth was occupied in field work about Port Antonio 

 (884-1000), and in the evening we sailed for Santiago de Cuba, 

 reaching there at noon on the 3oth. The afternoon was devoted to 

 mails from home, and the 3ist to a trip down the coast in the yacht 

 to visit the wrecks of the Viscaya and Almirante Oquendo. 



February ist was occupied in a study of the arid shores of the 

 bay, which at this season present very few flowering plants (1001- 

 1024}; and the 2d in a trip to El Caney (1025-1041} and San Juan 

 Hill (1042-1056). So little rain falls in this region at this season, 

 that the scanty flora sustains insufficient characters to warrant 

 extended collecting. On the 3d and 4th we visited Morro Castle 

 {1057-1103) and "The Ovens" (1104-1126), the latter a gulch to the 

 north, in whose rocky sides are many rounded cavities, large and 

 small, which give rise to the name. 



At this point in the cruise Mr. Mott was called home by busi- 

 ness necessities, and as better accommodations could be secured on a 

 vessel leaving Port Antonio, our yacht was headed again for that 

 place. This gave me a further opportunity to collect there, and the 

 morning of the 8th was spent in a glen near the village (1127-1149). 

 At 5 P. M. we followed Mr. Mott's steamer out of the bay and laid a 

 course for Cuba at the point where the Cristobal Colon was driven 

 ashore. We sighted her at about ten the following morning, and 

 while the Utowana lay off and on, we boarded the wreck and spent 

 some time upon her side. 



At Cayman Brae our next stopping place, we found an anchor- 

 age on the north coast close to the rocky shore, near a little settle- 

 ment known as ''The Creek." Here, in company with one of the 

 natives, I spent the afternoon along the beach and on the plateau 

 above (1150-1102}. 



A calm delightful evening followed and we retired early with a 

 quiet sea, only to be rudely awakened at eleven o'clock by a 

 horrible thumping. Rushing on deck we found the yacht in a 

 screaming "norther," which, coming up without warning, was dash- 



