THE BANANA RIVER COUNTRY 



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The Banana River country. (From a map of the United Fruit Co.) 



me cordially and said he would send me to Bearesem West 

 if I wished but thought I would find more comfortable quar- 

 ters with him at Philadelphia South. So I accepted his 

 offer for a day or two at least and having been given a pleas- 

 ant airy room changed to my collecting outfit and went into 

 the bananas at the foot of the hill, collecting along a little 

 brook until breakfast. The elevation was perhaps fifty 

 feet; a refreshing breeze was blowing, but the sun shone 

 brightly and when not shaded by the bananas It was de- 

 cidedly hot. 



