296 Underwood: Wright's explorations in Cuba 



which will probably detain me but a few days. Then I shall return 



to Guantanamo stopping a day or two in the cuchillas (mountains)." 

 24 Te Monte Verde. "Got home yesterday tired out and my horse more so, 



seven days from Baracoa collecting a little by the way.*' 

 29 Jl Monte Verde. "After resting etc. I went on the road to Baracoa as 



far as the point where it turns northward to cross the mountains." 



7 Au Monte Verde. 



12 Au «' " 



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5 O Valparaiso. "Just on the edge of Monte Libano." [Seven miles due 



west of Monte Verde.— E.] 

 17 O Monte Verde. " Got back yesterday. 



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. 24 N Nouvelle Sophie. "On the 20th I set out on my journey which if I 



am prospered will end at least for a time at "la Habana." 



3 D Filantropia. Mentions a day on La Guinea. [Wright then went via 



Saltadero.] 

 13 D Mentions three excursions on La Guinea and Loma del Gato. 



16 D Bayamo. The letter was mailed from Bayamo the 17th- 

 1862. 2 Ja Sancto Spiritos (Santo Espiritu). 



4ja Sancto Spiritos "Shall remain a few days" * * * " There are 



as many as six or eight species of palms abundant along the route I 

 have come, several of which I have not collected." 

 I F Ingenio Fermina. " Fermina is a sugar estate two leagues from Bemba 



[=Jovellanos.— E.] * * * "Left Santo Espiritu the l6tb." 

 [Here Wright found Gundlach, the zoologist, with whom he made 

 many excursions.] In this letter Wright speaks of coming to an in- 

 genio (sugar estate) the 24th where he stayed four or five days and 

 "the next day here." Four leagues before reaching Villa Clara he 

 mentions coming to a very hilly savanna. 

 23 Mr Mejia. " In my last [there is, however, no mention of this in any letter 



present in the collection] I told you I was going to the Cienaga de 

 Zapata. I am domiciled about three leagues from it — have been to 

 • it twice." [Probably S. of Navajas. — E.] 

 28 Mr Mejia, " Returned from another excursion to the Cienaga." 



[Here occurs a brief hiatus in the correspondence.] 



17 Je San Jose [In Pinar del Rio, near Taco Taco or Santa Cruz. — E.] 



* 



[This place is mentioned in a previous letter as away S. W, of Habana.] 

 ** I have been here more than three weeks with Don Jos6 Blain, who 

 takes some interest in botany." . . , "I was there (Habana) the 

 last days of May. It's a nasty place." , . . " I am about 20 leagues 

 westward of Habana right at the foot (south side) of Rangel range of 

 mountains or Los Organos." 

 23 Je " Returned from a visit of two or three days to Retiro, the other place 



Don Jose mentioned, when I was in Habana six days." 



4 Au Santa Cruz. " Day before yesterday returned from an excursion of a 



few days south and west of here into the savannas, pinales and the 

 famous 'vueltabago' — the tobacco district." [Properly vuelta 

 abajo. ] 



