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palms had been seen on any of the cays. A view of the sea 
showed it to be very heavy and upon our return to the boat it 
was evident that it would be impossible to go outside in our little 
raft, so we reluctantly set our course “homeward,” but were 
soon compelled to tie up under the lee of tall mangroves for 
protection from wind and wave, and the night spent there was 
none too comfortable. Next morning, with considerable trouble 
and much risk, we crossed the bay to Port Biaro to permit Ray- 
mond to disembark for his home at La Gloria. Thinking the other 
side was the best, we recrossed the bay and were much relieved 
when we reached several tall mangroves where we tied up for the 
greater partof theday. We had reason to congratulate ourselves 
that we had no accidents and were safely on land while the storm 
continued for several days longer. It had been my intention 
to cross over to Cayo Sabinal, to a low hill of which I had no 
knowledge when that cay was explored on my previous trip, but 
this storm prevented my doing so and it was not until Novem- 
ber 20 that I succeeded in having the collections cured, packed 
and shipped to New York. 
aving also shipped my outfit to Nipe Bay via coastwise 
steamer, I left Tiffin on the morning of November 21, stopping at 
Queen City, and made an excursion into the dry, barren savanna 
to the eastward of the railway, for the purpose of securing 
better material and photographs of the peculiar waxy-leaved 
palm seen there the previous spring. In this I was quite success- 
ful and also found a small thicket-forming fan-leaved palm, 
probably a Thrinax, which fruited when scarcely more than one 
foot high and was not seen to exceed more than six feet. I got 
into Las Minas quite late that night and went by train to Cama- 
guey next morning, noting that the waxy-leaved palm also oc- 
curred in the dry savanna to the west of the railway some five 
or six miles north of that city. 
During the intervals between the cruises about the cays, I 
made trips when practicable into the country immediately 
around Tiffin. This region is mostly covered with a growth of 
upright shrubs and small pinta ie foundation peine lime rock 
soil. On the lower land or “‘jucuro”’ forests 
