JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XXIV March, 1923 No. 279 
A TRIP TO PICO TURQUINO 
ra number of years, I have been wishing to visit: Pico 
circumstance, when, last June, came the notice that an expedi- 
tion to that mountain was plaane d by Mr. St ee Bruner, 
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tunity of co me g in extensive regio! Besides the 
a ork ee was Ba chicf purpose, they ob- 
tained fro a POMENAIS orio Nacional” several instruments to 
make ied observations and also to a te height 
of the chief peaks, especially that of Pico Turqu 
e av: 
left an and after aa six are in 
the train we st d at Yara, a small station between Bayam 
and Manzanillo, famous for being the plac ere the first 
war began for nae in 1868. ere we were hospitably 
attended by the Mayor, Sr. Camacho, and especially by the 
Judge, Sr. Rogelio Matos. The day after, De an arrived, 
= after buying food supplies an ts, we started, 
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n July 6 in the morning, for Nagua, a small village 13 miles 
aad among the first foothills of Sierra Maestra. We 
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