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ferns thirty feet high grow luxuriantly. Here also is the bird’s- 
nest fern, which is attached to the roots and branches of the 
trees often twenty or thirty feet above the ground. The climbers 
up the giants of the forest are grand, and the festoons of roots 
hanging from the branches of these giants are most wonderful. 
The ‘traveller's ladder’? is one of the most conspicuous, also 
the “‘traveller’s water-bottle.’”’ One foot of this, if cut with a 
cutlass quickly, first at the top and then below, will yield about 
eight ounces of pure water. If cut slowly, and the second cut 
be above the first, the water is not found, as it is drawn upwards 
by capillary attraction. The temperature at the summit of the 
Grand Etang was only 70° Fahr. I was asked by some black 
women (who were busily bringing stones out of the forest for 
road repairing) whether I wanted a white flower. Of course I 
said ‘* Yes, I should like to see it,’ and in a few minutes I heard 
them cutting away with their cutlasses, and a little later an 
awful crash as of a big tree falling, and they soon appeared 
bringing two large blossoms of the palmiste or ‘‘gru-gru”’ palm, 
which they presented to me. As these weighed some ten or 
twelve pounds, they were somewhat of a ‘white elephant,” 
although very beautiful. I got them back to the rest-house, 
where I photographed them. The expanded flower-head is very 
like a piece of white coral. Humming-birds are very plentiful 
here, and we were much interested in watching one within a 
foot or so of us, collecting cobwebs from the house with which 
to cover the outside of its nest. We also heard some monkeys 
barking, and later in the day had the pleasure of watching a troop 
of a dozen or more feeding and playing in the trees not more than 
forty feet away from us, I understand they are sometimes shot 
and eaten. We found on that day in the forest an orchid, the 
passion flower, fuchsia, and begonia; also several small birds’ 
nests, one more especially interesting, viz. the weaver-bird’s 
nest. We had the good fortune to be at the Grand Etang when 
the moon was full, and the night was indeed enchanting. 
The following day we continued our journey to Grenville, 
another seven miles, passing through miles of cacao estates, and 
returned to the Grand Etang the same evening. 
I will sum up Grenada as follows:—A British colony, dis- 
covered by Columbus on August 15th, 1498. It lies ninety 
miles north of Trinidad, sixty-eight miles south-south-west of 
St. Vincent, and about one hundred south-west of Barbadoes. 
It is twenty-four miles long and about twelve miles broad, and 
contains about a hundred and twenty square miles. The highest 
elevations are Mount St. Catherine 2749 feet, Mount Surai 
2300 feet, and the mountain over the Grand Etang 2014 feet. 
The island is a very beautiful one, and is well watered by streams 
in almost all directions. The island is of volcanic origin, and 
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