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plies were carried in on man-back, it requiring one man three 
days to bring in about fifty pounds, two days coming in and 
one going out. 
It had been my intention to do considerable collecting on the 
return trip and spend about three days along the trail, but as 
the engineer in charge of the camp was absent and the Spanish 
youth acting in his stead took little interest in my work and made 
no effort to understand or supply my needs, I was compelled to 
alter my plans accordingly. 
I could get only three small cans of sardines and two tins of 
salt meat to sustain myself and one pack-man for two days. 
As the pack-man was already overloaded, I appealed for more 
assistance, but without success. I suggested that a man be 
instructed to gather up such packages as we should leave at the 
two abandoned camps along the trail on his way down, but this 
was also ignored. My chagrin can better be imagined than 
described when a few days later I saw five men come to the lower 
camp entirely burdenless. On the second day I was compelled 
to share the burdens of the pack- man and , a large- pas 
to eet off the trail. We ocd at the eee aeie. on the 
evening of the second day, both overloaded, very hungry and 
tired out. 
Next morning I learned that it would be several days before I 
could get a boat returning to Baracoa, so I explored the rich 
alluvial Yamaniguey River valley and the low serpentine hills 
which extend down to tidewater near the mouth of the river and 
also form part of the shore line of the bay. On both of these forma- 
tions I collected various species at practically sea-level which in 
the Sierra Nipe were not supposed to get below 1,000 feet altitude. 
The spiny tree-fern and the Cuban pine were two striking examples 
indeed, the specimens of the latter collected here being knocked 
off the tree from a row boat. Frequent rains during all this 
time added to our discomfort and anxiety. The collections had 
much exceeded the capacity of the limited number of driers I 
brought with me, so that the plants were being kept in damp 
papers much too long for their proper preservation, as I had not 
