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12th, I was guest of Mr. Richard Muskus at his Landhuis 

 Knip, near the northern end of the same island. On July 19th, 

 the schooner "Albertina" took me to Oranjestad (Plaja 

 Aruba) , from which town a study was made of the island of 

 Aruba, until August 10th, when I sailed, on the packet 

 schooner "Ligia," back to Willemstad (Punta), Curasao, and 

 then to Kralendijk (Plaja Bonaire), Bonaire. From August 

 13th to September 1st, collections were made on this island, 

 with a visit to Klein-Bonaire (Bonaire Chikitoe) on August 

 24th. By arrangement, the sloop ''America" put me ashore 

 for two hours, on September 1st, at the island of Klein- 

 Curasao (Curasao Chikitoe). September 2nd to 17th were 

 spent at Overzijde, Curasao, from where trips were made to 

 Sint Willebrordus and New Port, on the same island. 



A note in regard to the locality names may not be out of 

 place. The language of the Dutch Leeward Islands is 

 Papiamento, which seems to have started as a dialect of 

 Portuguese, but which has acquired words from all of the 

 languages spoken in the West Indies. Written Papiamento 

 was invented by Dutch orthographers, with the result that 

 the combinations of letters, used to express certain sounds, 

 are very different from those in the Romance languages. The 

 larger towns and the more conspicuous topographic features 

 have Dutch names, but the official language is infrequently 

 heard in the islands, and the Papiamento synonyms are much 

 more commonly used. The former are preferred throughout 

 this paper, but the latter are occasionally added in paren- 

 theses. The spellings used here are taken from the Dutch 

 Government 1/20000 topographic maps, but, even in these, 

 variations occur. 



My thanks are due the Government officials of the islands, 

 especially the Procureur-General and the Government secre- 

 taries of Cura(,'ao and the Subgovernors of Aruba and Bonaire, 

 and also to the United States Consul, Mr. B. S. Rairden, for 

 assistance in many ways. In addition, I found all of the 

 people of the islands extremely hospitable and always willing 

 to direct me to favorable localities for study. In particular. 



