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the middle in a northerly direction appear to be the only 
high land upon it. Passing through the Carabelas Channel to 
inner waterways we reached Tiffin landing about six o’clock in 
the morning. After remaining at Tiffin until the morning of 
October 18, curing the collections and awaiting the overhauling 
of the boat, which had developed a bad leak on the first cruise, 
we started out with the intention of rounding Cayo Cocos. The 
weather being very wet and the sea rough, we were compelled 
to tie up for a time on Cayo Piedra, a part of Cayo Guajaba, a 
point touched on my trip last winter but for which I did not get a 
name at that time. Several species not then seen by me were 
collected. 
he sea having quieted down, we again proceeded and reached 
a point opposite Punta Guanaja by nightfall where we anchored, 
spread a canvas over the boom and spent a fairly comfortable night 
in spite of the heavy rain. Early next morning we continued west- 
navigation very tedious, so that it was quite late in the afternoon 
when our first stop was made at Punta Jucuro, on Cayo Romano, 
this being the first firm land seen along the southern coast. e 
however, a wide strip of fertile black soil separated the sandy bank 
from the interior lagoon and supported a forest growth of medium 
sized trees, some of them carrying many bromeliads. Two fan- 
leaved palms with tall thin trunks grew together, one a Coccothrinax 
called “‘mira guana,’’ the other probably a Thrinax and called 
“suana lana,” the latter having a woolly coating between the 
layers of its bud. This woolly substance is scraped off and used 
for stuffing pillows, etc. It is said to be on sale at Nuevitas, at 
about twenty-five cents per pound, but I failed to find any so 
exposed. Next morning, October 20, we landed at Salina de la 
Principal, the landing place for a primitive salt works long since 
abandoned. The beach here is made up of finely broken shells. 
Conocarpus occurs at the water’s edge, the grassy thicket in the 
rear being made up of common coastal species with Metopium 
the principal small tree. Dense thickets of Pithecolobium were 
