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following afternoon on Mr. William J. Pinder’s schooner, the 
“ Nellie Leonora,” which had been chartered for us previously 
to our arrival. Owing to a strong head-wind and heavy seas, we 
put in at the Bight, Cat Island, on the afternoon of November 
22. Little time was given to collecting the commoner land- 
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Fic. 9. The ‘ Nellie Leonora’’ at Rose Island. 
plants of this locality as extensive collections were made at this 
point earlier in the year by yourself and Dr. Millspaugh. A 
‘‘creek” in this vicinity furnished a number of marine alge of 
interest. Leaving the Bight at about noon on the twenty-third, 
we anchored at sunset near the Southwest Point of this island, 
where we remained for a few hours during a squall, sailing in the 
night for Cockburn Town (‘ Riding Rock”), Watling’s Island, 
where we arrived on the twenty-fifth. Cockburn Town is the 
port of entry of Watling’s Island, and we carried letters of intro- 
