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mountain sides, but, strange to say, waterfalls are rather scarce, 
but few having been seen by our party. Our visit was made 
during the dry season, so that many of the smaller streams were 
indicated by dry river beds only, and some of the rivers had but 
a small volume of water. I was informed, however, that during 
the wet season, from October to January, these become veritable 
torrents which are impassable. I can readily understand this, for 
the banks, by their undermined and stony condition, give ample 
evidence of the passage of vast quantities of water at some time. 
I have before referred to the roads, but they cannot be called 
such in our acceptation of the term. In the low lands near the 
coast, and in the neighborhood of some of the villages and cities, 
they may attain to the dignity of a road, but the so-called roads 
in the mountains, many of them, are terrible, and can only be 
traversed on horseback. These trails, for such they are, zigzag 
along steep mountain sides, and along ridges with precipitous 
sides on either hand, where a misstep on the part of the horse 
would be fatal. The surface is extremely uneven, large boul- 
ders, loose stones, slippery clay banks with corrugated fur- 
rowed surfaces, and mud sloughs are everywhere, these difficul- 
ties frequently occurring in the steepest parts of the trail. Toad 
to the difficulties of travel, all streams must be forded, as there 
are no bridges. At the time of our visit this was not a severe 
performance, though sometimes a tedious one, from the frequency 
of its repetition. JI remember in one instance hee the sam 
stream sixteen times in a short ride of twelve m 
The republic has a population estimated at ren 1,300,000. 
Of these about go,o0o are in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien, 
leaving about 1,210,000 for the smaller towns and the mountains. 
It is truly called the black republic, for one rarely sees mulat- 
toes. The white man, of course, is in a very small minorjty, and 
it was rather a unique experience, this traveling in a country 
where the negro is the dominant factor, and where the white man 
is dependent on him for protection of life and limb. This protec- 
tion is necessary for safe travel, as they are suspicious of foreign- 
ers, and especially of Americans, and can only be secured with 
proper credentials. In the first place, entrance to the country 
