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at noon, hoisting anchor after dinner and heading for Barrington. Took care of 

 onr birds in the afternoon. 



Uct. •). — Anchored at N.E. end of Harrington Island in h) fathoms at 10 a.m. 

 After dinner all hands went on shore to kill some goats. Beck, Hull, and I each 

 kOled one out of a dozen. We also secured a large land if;uaiia and saw several more. 

 This iguana lives in holes. Is a dirty-white in colour, with indistinct blackish 

 patches, and has red eyes. This is the first island that we have observed land 

 iguanas on. We saw a swallow with white belly, but were unfortunate in not 

 getting it. 



Oct. (). — All hands collected this morning, getting about ;")■") birds. Beck 

 got into a " village " of ignanas, and killed about 2.3. I saw, for the first time, 

 to be reasonably sure of it, the Progne modesta. The swallow that I saw yesterday 

 was i)robably the one seen by Baur at Indefatigable. Black malfs, of Geospiza 

 barringtoni of Ridgway ( = G. scaiidens futiyat'i) were quite common. Beck shot 

 an owl on board vessel this evening. 



Oct. 7. — AVe put up about 4.5 l>irds and secured a bat, also the first snake here 

 — 35 in. long, greyish ground colour, brown spots, gray gold eyes; also a large centi- 

 pede. Took a ])icture of and afterwards killed with a stick a Bnforides jdumhetis, 

 which came and stood on point of the vessel this morning. Last night Beck killed 

 an owl on the vessel with a stick. 



Oct. 8. — All four of us, with the mate and a sailor, went after iguanas, capturing 

 ten alive, and getting a dozen which we skinned. The iguanas must be about ready 

 to lay their eggs, as most of the fcnwle-s have nine to fifteen large eggs in them. 

 Hoisted anchor at 4 p.m., and set sail for Chatham. (300 gal. of water left ; no 

 chance to obtain any to-day; have been looking for it, and must now go to Chatham.) 



Oct. 9 and 10. — Arrived in Wreck Bay on Cliathaai Island yesterday, l.:JO ^.va.^ 

 dropping anchor in five fathoms off the Cobos .Storehouse. Soon after we were 

 boarded by Captain Barnhotf, master of a schooner which lays in the bay, belongs to 

 Guayaquil, and is chartered by Cobos to carry sugar. Also the Equadorian (iovern- 

 ment representative on the island, and two other Spaniards, bringing a package of 

 mails and a letter from Sefior (Jobos, inviting us to come up to the Hacienda, saying 

 that there were horses at our disposal. After reading letters went ashore. The two 

 captains, Hull, and I mounted horses and rode up the road towards the hacienda, 

 about five miles from the bay. The road is a nice one, and about a mile below the 

 settlement yoit come to a gateway with the words " El Progresso " above it. From 

 here to the settlement there are large sugar-cane fields on both sides. Lemon, orange 

 and fig trees line the roadside. On arriving at Seuor ( lobos' house we were met by 

 him, and were entertained at supper and through the evening. Cobos is a typical 

 Spaniard. His house is the only one of any pretensions ; the others are all cane 

 huts. He has a sugar refinery, and sells his sugar in Guayaquil. He has SUO acres 

 of sugar cane, loOD coffee trees ; raises oranges, lemons, figs, yucca, eabbagej 

 bananas, and some other tropical fruit. He has 5UU tame cattle, and lUUO wild ones 

 run over the island. Wild dogs abound on the island. We saw Progne modesta, also 

 the other swallow, which is our American barn swallow. We saw a number of 

 cuckoos (Cocci/ziig). Sefior Cobos has got a fine place here, and he is practically 

 king. The rest of the population are entirely dependent on him. There is also an 

 Ecuadorian Government official and some soldiers. 



Mr. Colws' engineer is a German. The hacienda looks much like a Californian 

 ranche. Yesterday was a feast day, being the seventy-seventh anniversary of 



