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to walk wliile the packs were removed and carried by porters. From 

 Geffrard we had descended to 250 meters, but on tliis high point we 

 were again at 740 meters elevation. Wliile waiting at the top of the 

 ridge for part of the outfit, we collected a fine cloud swift. 



Rain began again, and we crossed a series of stony ridges grown 

 with low trees where habitations were few, to stumble and slip finally 

 down a long pitch into the cultivated valley at Les Glaces, where we 

 forded the stream of this same name. At Les Glaces we found a 

 scattered settlement of 40 or 50 houses whose inhabitants were 

 amazed to see white men. With darkness approaching we continued 

 over muddy trails until we came out suddenly on the broad highway 

 that was being pushed across from Jeremie, and in a blinding rain 

 reached the settlement of Deron, where we were hospitably received 

 in the house of Lifaite Loco, Chef de Seccion, who placed a room at 

 our disposal and provided quarters for our men. The terrific down- 

 pour that began with our arrival continued without abatement until 

 4 o'clock the following morning, so that we were thankful for the 

 galvanized-iron roof over our heads in spite of the tremendous noise 

 that the water made upon it. 



As the streams were so high that fords were impassable, we remained 

 until April 8 at Deron to make collections and to dry out our outfit. 

 The region was an undulating plateau rising in liigh liills, on which 

 were small areas of the original forest. Elsewhere the land was culti- 

 vated or planted to coffee. The elevation at the house of Loco was 

 620 meters. 



We left Deron at 1:15 on the afternoon of April 9, having been 

 delayed by waiting for the return of a man sent the previous day to 

 Corail for supplies. Our way led over rolling ridges covered with 

 coffee, and supporting a considerable population. Late in the after- 

 noon we came out on a knife-edged ridge, with a trail following along 

 the top and the slopes falling away abruptly on either side, and 

 climbed a steep pitch to a pointed knoll grown with pines. Tliis was 

 the Bois Pin Lacadonis, and as we rested we admired the open stand 

 of pines in contrast to the dense jungle growths that we had crossed 

 previously. After fording a small stream below there, part of the 

 outfit took the wrong trail and was soon in trouble on the steep slopes, 

 with animals down so that part of the loads had to be carried by hand. 

 While we waited we watched circling flocks of the mountain swallow 

 {Lamprochelidon sclateri) and collected one for a specimen. With 

 the outfit assembled once more, we continued as rapidly as possible 

 over muddy trails until we arrived at dusk at the little group of 

 houses known as Bois Lacombe, where we were cordially received by a 

 friendly old man and were given a tiny little house that had barely 

 room for our three cots side by side. The elevation there was 925 

 meters. 



