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harbor. The boat was well filled in spite of the lowering weather 

 which cleared as we went along and was soon all that we could 

 have wished, although our overcoats were very comfortable. Great 

 has been the increase in building about the upper harbor and the 

 views were still beautiful ; we had a capital lunch at Corey's Gar- 

 dens where more than two hundred sat at the tables. We were 

 back at the landing and at 2 p.m. started for town to make needed 

 purchases, and at the Civil Service Cooperative Stores we took the 

 regulation afternoon tea in a most agreeable manner with some 

 two hundred buds, blossoms and seedpods. 



Friday, Oct. 25. In the Botanical Garden with the Director 

 Dr. Maiden and the superintendent we had a most instructive walk 

 through the newer portion of the grounds, and made on the way a 

 considerable list of plants to be sent to Honolulu. 1 



Later we took a brisk walk to the museum across the Domain 

 ( Fig. 144) and found my old friend the Director, Mr. R. Etheridge, 

 Jr., who welcomed me and we had a most agreeable chat in his 

 office. They had just received a lot of stone churingas painted red, 

 but not so good as those we had seen in Dresden and of which we 

 are to receive specimens. Later Mr. Wilson arrived and we started 

 for the new portion of the museum where the ethnological collec- 

 tions are arranged. On the way, in passing through the natural 

 history collections, we saw perhaps the finest group of animals 

 seen in any museum. It was by Ward and consisted of half a 

 dozen lions halted on the rocks of a dry nullah. They were hungry 

 and showed it in the eyes as well as in the lean and sinewy legs 

 and ribbed sides, but on the opposite side of the nullah was a cobra 

 coiled on a rock with expanded hood and threatening aspect. To 

 put the varying expression of fear, curiosity, and yet longing for 

 food into the glass eyes and mounted skins, seems more than a 

 painter could do on canvas, but a master has done this here. I 

 regret that I cannot present a front view of the group, but the one 

 kindly sent me ( Fig. 146 ) gives a partial idea of this fine work of art. 

 Another good thing in a different way was the restoration of a 



1 These have since arrived and at the U. S. Experiment vStation they found 

 only one plant dead; the others are all thriving and may be of use to the terri- 

 tory, as all are desirable if they can be made to grow here. It may be mentioned 

 that seeds sent from the garden at Buitenzorg in Java have germinated in the 

 same place under the good care of Mr. Chester J. Hunn. 



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