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picturesque little harbor in Samana Bay. Interesting collections 
were made here and photographs taken of the wonderful caves 
which have fabulous stories related of their old-time buccaneer 
inhabitants. It was at San Lorenzo that the only tree-fern seen 
during the entire expedition was collected. Two other palms 
were found, neither of them having been met with on the north 
side of Samana Bay. One, known locally as ‘‘ Manacla’’ is 
common here but it was not seen anywhere else. The other, 
a fan-leaf palm, was subsequently seen almost throughout the 
Fic. 1, Building a dugout from the silk-cotton tree, San Lorenzo, Santo Domingo. 
eastern end of the island. Still another plant of peculiar interest 
collected at San Lorenzo was a tiny Dorstenta found growing in 
the crevices of the limestone rocks, It is rare and was not seen 
again. 
On Sunday afternoon, October 31, we left here for the Consuelo 
sugar-estate, in the province of Macoris, our destination on the 
south side of the island. Taking only as much baggage as one 
pack animal could carry, and with a man for guide we started on 
the ride of something more than sixty miles. The first ten miles 
