JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. XXIII July, 1922 No. 271 
NARRATIVE OF AN ASCENT OF PICO TURQUINO, 
CUBA 
the night of April 6th, I left the wharf at the ice factory 
no sand. The formation of these is principally a kind of diorite, 
a mixture of quartz and feldspar with no mica, serpentine, and 
a hard black stone like basalt. The surf breaks constantly on 
this beach, and only in calm weather can a landing be made in 
a little skiff which the fishermen keep anchored out beyond the 
line of breakers. As on all rocky beaches w wave 
recedes there is ding noise. All of the stones are rounded 
and polished by the action of the waves. A landing was made 
without difficulty although the skiff was swamped going back 
to the launch. 
Ocujal is an ordinary coast settlement, and is made up of 
four Boies: of the usual native construction. I noticed, how- 
ever, that the mud walls instead of being wattled and plastered 
worked in between and all this plastered over. The natives 
and plastered one. The natives raise hogs, a few cattle, and all 
work at Ensenada de Mora, a sugar mill near Cape Cruz. 
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