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with the first peak. This ridge is very narrow and is capped by 
just a day or two before. We noticed severa! places where they 
had dug out the tubers of the ‘“‘fiame cimarron,” wild yam 
(Dioscorea). In this cave we found four water cans left by the 
nd Jua th took one, and went down to the headwaters of 
the Cabrera river, some 1000 ft. below on the western slope 
of the ridge. 
La Cueva del Aura is slightly Jower than Loma Cardero, and 
the ridge here is very narrow. At 2:10 P. M. ye we arrived 
the thermometer registered 70°; at 3:00 P. M. 66°; at 4:00 P. 
ey at which point it 
At about four o’clock in = Seo the mist began to con- 
dense, and fall in large drops, like the first nee drops of 
summer rain, which continued until the land breeze from 
cae north sprang up, blowing the clouds out - sea at about 8:00 
It then cleared up and from a large rock at the edge of 
o or one could see the valley of the Portrerillo river below in 
singing. It is impossible to describe their song, but it is the 
sweetest song of any bird that I ever heard, and seems to fill 
