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leaving the palms, at least temporarily, to shade the young 
fiber-plants 
Taking advantage of a favorable wind to sail northward, Little 
Harbor was reached at sundown, and January 30 was spent in 
collecting upon Frozen Cay, a very rocky islet, supporting the 
ensest growth of the common West Indian prickly pear (Opuntia 
Ditleni) that we have seen, the greater ak of the surface of the 
cay being impenetrable in ordinary ways on nt of this 
growth ; the parts that we could reach, ee te speci- 
Fic. 19. Bahamian Century Plant (4gave) on Great Harbor Cay. 
mens of several interesting species, among them a columnar cac- 
tus, [ feet high (Pilocereus\), and several twining vines. 
Little Harbor Cay, just to the north, was visited on Fe 31; 
here considerable arable land was noticed and a fine coppice 
of large trees, in it the largest specimens of the “Sapin”’ 
(Bumelia loranthifolia) that we have met with, one individual 
being 20 feet high with a trunk a foot in diameter. 
