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A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. 



and topaz, and one of the large black-tliroated ones {Lamporn's 

 nUjricoUls). 



In the afternoon we were bnsy getting our things together, as Ave 



ly. The climate of 



concluded to start back on the following dii 



Guaduas is delightful, and the place promises well, but Alice is get- 

 ting worn out by loss of sleep and by poor food. I arranged about 

 our mules and two peons to accompany us and bring the mules 

 back. Our specimens so filled a trunk now that I had to purchase 

 another pataca. In the little shop where I bought the pataca, I saw 

 several deerskins, apparently of just the same color as our Virginia 

 deer, the fawns being likewise spotted, and the skull of a young 

 jaguar that had been killed not very far from Guaduas. The shop- 



