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Travels and Adventures 



so intense. On arriving at Barranquilla many fine 

 specimens in my collection were lost. In this I 

 am not alone, as every traveller has found that 

 however well his plants are packed, and however 

 carefully looked after, many much-prized specimens, 



that have cost so much labour and hardship to 

 obtain, have to be thrown overboard and left to finish 

 rotting in the muddy waters of the Magdalena. I 

 was fortunate in securing a passage at once by the 

 Royal Mail Company's steamship Essequibo. On the 

 journey from Barranquilla to the port there was 

 the usual delay and annoyance, the only difference 



