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on April 20, with a light breeze, passed Hole-in-the-wall Light at five- 

 thirty the following morning, and Cheroki Sound at two P.M., and an- 

 chored for the night at Spencer's Point, opposite Pelican Harbor, shortly 

 after four o'clock. We were advised to go to a place called "Sand 

 Bank," on the mainland of Abaco, opposite Whale Cay, and one of the 

 crew offered to carry us there from Green Turtle Cay, the Jemima's 

 destination. An entire day (April 22) was consumed in getting from 

 Spencer's Point to Green Turtle Cay, which we reached a little after 

 seven in the evening, and another day in getting a boat and provisions, 

 transferring our outfit, and making the trip to Sand Bank, which we 

 finally reached at sundown on April 23. We moved into a palmetto 

 shack with plenty of mosquitoes for company, and after a bite of supper 

 crawled under our mosquito bars for some much needed rest, beginning 

 work the following morning. The locality proved to be a good one for 

 our purpose. There was a high ridge next the coast, taken up with 

 an orange and sapodilla orchard, and back of this ridge a strip of 

 thick, high coppet, with an undergrowth of ferns, which extended 

 into the pine barrens beyond. The pine trees here were much larger 

 than any w^e saw elsewhere on the islands, and afforded congenial 

 haunts for the Bahama Pine Warbler, Cuban Warbler, Yellow- 

 breasted Warbler, and Abaco Hairy Woodpecker. In the tops of the 

 tall dead trees we found the Bahama Swallow nesting, while the Tanner 

 Yellow-throat found a home among the luxuriant growth of ferns 

 beneath. Water-birds of all kinds, however, were conspicuous by 

 their absence. 



We remained at Sand Bank until April 30, when we sailed for 

 Spencer's Point in the small schooner "Northeaster," arriving the 

 following day, securing accommodations with a Mr. Sweeting, near the 

 large saw-mill plant of the Bahama Lumber Company, which gave 

 us the advantage of long hand-car rides into the forest on the tramway 

 line. The general aspect of the country at this point is about the 

 same as at Sand Bank, and the avifauna quite similar. Back of the 

 high ridge along the coast, and extending nearly to Sweeting's Village 

 on the southeast side of the island, was the largest coppet we encoun- 

 tered. It was thirty or forty feet high in places, and contained many 

 large trees, but for some reason it was exceedingly poor in bird-life. 



Although the captain of the "Jemima" had promised to call for 

 us Sunday or Monday, May 10, to take us to Nassau in time for the 

 mail steamer for New York on May 13, he failed us utterly, but for- 



