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uncomfortable weather, with swollen creeks and mahogany 

 tracks, if possible, more muddy and disagreeable than before. 



My guide having disappointed me, I was fortunate to meet 

 with a brave little boy called "Doctor," a protege" of Mr. 

 Williamson's, who safely piloted me a distance of some 15 

 miles through rain and darkness, until we reached Mount Hope 

 about 11 o'clock at night. 



At Tea Kettle I met Mr. Gillett, of Orange Walk, who took 

 me through the Indian settlement of San Francisco, and eventu- 

 ally to Orange Walk. 



From Orange Walk I determined to return to Belize by the 

 Old Eiver, and making an early start on Friday morning we 

 reached Belize about 8 o'clock the following evening. 



The numerous botanical and other notes made on this 

 journey will more fittingly come under a description of the 

 plants and general resources of the colony, and I will therefore 

 defer them to a later chapter. 



