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expected to be gone much longer than half of the eleven days 
consumed on this trip. However, upon my return to Baracoa 
I found that very few specimens had been spoiled, -but some were 
badly discolored. It required over a week to care for the col- 
lections and to recover from the exposures and fatiguing effects 
of this very interesting journey. 
Another trip was made into the region west of Baracoa by 
going to Navas, where I arrived on the afternoon of March 18, 
and was the guest of Mr. Fitch. Almost constant rain frustrated 
most of my plans, but I succeeded in getting well up the Navas 
River, on which I observed another species of tree-fernin addition 
to the spiny one also there at very little above sea-level. The 
principal object of this trip was to get up to ‘‘Camp Buena 
Vista,” an extensive mining camp now abandoned, situated ap- 
parently only a few miles directly back of Navas and probably 
the highest point so near the coast. It is at an elevation of about 
2,000 feet and can be plainly seen from boats passing along the 
coast. The trail to this camp was long and circuitous and had 
been cut out so that pack-animals could use it. In company 
with a guide I reached the camp and returned to Navas the same 
day, my pedometer registering apeue nineteen miles. Crossing 
serpentine, scrub-covered hills before reaching a rough hilly region, 
whose steep sides are quite fertile, and support a forest of good 
sized trees. Small cocoanut plantations are met with throughout 
this region and one wonders how the product is gotten out at a 
profit. A small river that enters the sea east of the Navas was 
crossed, and some very steep climbing was required to reach the 
top edge of a series of “‘cuchillas,”” along which one passes to the 
westward. At times the top is scarcely wider than the trail, 
with immense precipices on each side. This is very wet and 
covered with many trees of medium size. A pinnate-leaved 
palm, called by my guide ‘‘palma bolo,” 
and is apparently local as I have not seen it at any other point 
in Cuba. The buildings, of which there were a half dozen or 
more in good condition, were thatched with the leaves of this 
palm and are in the midst of what appears to me as one of the 
was very abundant 
