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Our next stopping place was Camfield Bay, some four or five 
miles further to the westward. An overland trip of three miles 
was made here through the scrub to Cabbage Pond, for the pur- 
pose of seeing another of the islands’ palms, called by the natives 
“pond thatch,” which proved to be Jvodes Palmetto (Walt.) Cook. 
A growth of saw- — Cladium Jamaicense Crantz., formed part 
of the vegetation here. A single tall plant, about twenty feet in 
hee of Pseudophoenix Sargentii was also observed. The only 
fern seen occurred in a salt-water hole not far from here. It 
Sa filled the hole, some 25 feet long. It is Acvostichum 
aureum L., known locally as “ wild plantain.” Cabbage Pond is 
a slight depression in the scrub where a considerable depth of soil 
has accumulated. It is in the immediate neighborhood that one 
of the so-called fountains” occurs, and the greater luxuriance 
of the aoe poe is probably due to the abundance of water 
in this “fount These “fountains” are usually circular 
bodies of fresh water which are said to be affected by the rise and 
fall of the tide. The one I saw here was 75 to 100 feet in diame- 
ter and densely fringed with a growth of saw-grass and shrubs. 
Looking down into it one saw an inky blackness, not at all in- 
viting as a drinking place. The blackness was not due, as I at 
first thought, to impurities in the water, but to its great depth. 
Captain Mitchell assured me that soundings had been made but 
with no success in reaching the bottom. 
Again returning to the sloop we set sail, proceeding direct to 
Sheep Cay, stopping here mainly for the purpose of photograph- 
ing some peculiar features of the vegetation which were noted 
on our first stop. 
The next stopping place was a are distance to the eastward 
of Northwest Point. At about 10 A. M. we rounded the point, 
and from that time until seven a the evening we tacked and 
drifted to Mathew Town, a distance of less than ten miles. 
The second trip was along the south side of the island of 
Great Inagua, and occupied three days. he first stop was 
made at Sandy Point, about sixteen miles from Mathew Town. 
We then proceeded to Lantern Head, about four miles beyond, 
the extreme eastern point reached by us on the south shore. 
