TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES 



OF 



AN ORCHID HUNTER 



ON 



IN COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA. 

 CHAPTER I. 



BOARD THE PHANTOM — FELLOW - PASSENGERS A 



SQUALL THE AZORES — BARBADOES BRIDGETOWN 



NEGRO DIVERS THE VEGETATION THE ICE- 

 HOUSE, 



V^jAVING fully made up my 

 mind for a lone sea- 

 voyage, and taken my 

 ticket for anywhere and 

 everywhere beyond the 

 seas, I provided myself 

 with a stock of knives, 

 cutlasses, revolvers, rifle, 

 an overflowing supply of 

 tobacco and newspapers, 

 and started on the third 



Saturday of the eighth month of Her Majesty Queen 



Victoria's Jubilee year. 



B 



