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ston and at Hardware Gap in the higher mountains. I was 
cordially received at King’s House by Sir Sydney Olivier, Gov- 
ernor of Jamaica, who had most kindly anticipated the needs of 
the expedition, upon the request of Mr, Fawcett, by issuing a 
general order to harbor masters and other officials, including the 
police, to aid our work in any way possible ; this order relieved 
our schooner of all port charges, gave us efficient assistance just 
where it was needed, obtained for us time-saving information on 
many occasions, and was, altogether, most important in the pros- 
ecution of our work. I have expressed to His Excellency our 
keen appreciation of his valuable codperation. 
Mr. Harris, Dr. Hollick and I set sail in Kingston Harbor on 
the morning of March 2 and made our first stop the same day at 
Fort Henderson, at the mouth of the harbor, where the day was 
spent in studying the flora of the Salt Pond Hills, a very dry 
region abounding in cactuses and other plants requiring but little 
rainfall. Leaving Fort Henderson at daybreak on March 3, we 
reached Old Harbour Bay early in the afternoon, and went 
ashore on Little Goat Island, where we found, among other inter- 
esting species, the white-flowered vine-like tree Vallesia glabra, 
of the Dogbane Family, new to Jamaica. March 4 was given to 
collecting on the adjacent Great Goat Island ; this island is inter- 
Jamaica; we saw many of these large lizards, which, on being 
startled, race through the bushes with great speed, seeking refuge 
in holes and crevices of the limestone. 
Sailing south and west the following morning, the day of March 
8 was spent near the extreme southern promontory of Jamaica, 
between Portland Point and Rocky Point. Here we were 
delighted to find a primitive race of cotton (Gossypium) growing 
on a rocky plain elevated a few feet above the sea, and on the 
coastal sand dunes, over an area about a mile long and in places 
several hundred feet wide. The region is singularly devoid of 
weeds of cultivation, and the nearly complete absence of soil 
practically forbids cultivation. On the rocky plain the cotton 
plants attained an average height of about four feet, while on the 
