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sented a letter to the general, accompanied by Dr. Livingston, 
facilitate our plans. This general gave me other letters to the 
generals in the various divisions under his control. These letters 
procured for us every consideration and facility during the jour- 
neys in the mountains. We were under military protection 
everywhere in the region controlled by General Jean-Gilles. But 
once did we get out of his domain; this was at Marmelade, and 
it was here we met with the only threatened trouble. We had 
no letters of introduction, and unfortunately had even left our 
passports at the plantation. We were received with great suspi- 
cion by the general in charge, and coldly treated. In fact, we 
met with a decided rebuff, and it was only by putting on a bold 
front and showing him we had no fear that we escaped difficulty. 
The mass of the people in the mountains are good-natured and 
child-like, and feared us rather than we them. 
These mountain people are generous, and will freely give 
what they have, but their accommodations, both in the matter 
of food and sleeping arrangements, are hardly such as would be 
acceptable to the white man, even though willing to rough it. 
If it were not for the priest to be found in every village, I fear 
the lot of the white sojourner there would bea hard one. These 
priests are educated Frenchmen, have comfortable homes, and 
their living is of the best the land affords. Through the kind- 
ness of the priest at Port Margot, a good friend of Mr. Cassé, 
we were furnished with letters of introduction to these priests in 
the interior, and right heartily were we welcomed by.them. We 
and our pack train and servants, making usually six or seven 
men and as many animals, were received by them; we were 
entertained as their guests, and upon our departure we were 
given a God-speed, and. an earnest invitation to come again. 
This description of the country and its people will make ap- 
parent to you some of the difficulties of collecting in Hayti, but 
to me they were an added zest in exploring a region, the flora of 
which is so little known. One must be in the saddle all day, 
repeatedly mounting and dismounting, if he expects to get even 
a fair representation of the flora. Some days we covered forty 
