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travel, particularly when a crowded deck offers the only passenger 

 accommodation, and it is necessary to shift about at every tack in 

 the course. The morning and evening light on the water, a flock of 

 flamingoes passing at sunset along an uninhabited shore, and bands of 

 terns, shearwaters, and other interesting birds are pleasant memories 

 of this voyage that overshadow the blazing, shelterless heat of mid- 

 day and the interminable tacking in an endeavor to work up the 

 coast, that continued for three days before we finally arrived at 

 Barahona. 



Return to Port-au-Prince was varied with stops to search for speci- 

 mens and when once more in Haiti we had time for several journeys 

 into the Cul de Sac region, including a trip to the great salt lake, the 

 Etang Saumatre, before we left on May 27, sailing once more on the 

 Ancon for the north. 



Hispaniola and our many friends and acquaintances there will live 

 long in pleasant memory. 



