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ports on the north side, requiring five or six days to cover the 
distance, but fast steamers must soon follow the establishment 
of fruit culture on a large scale. Sugar cane is grown in con- 
siderable quantity, but much of it is transformed into rum, or 
tafia, a poor quality of rum, and much indulged in by the poorer 
people. Some rice is cultivated, and many of the tropical fruits, 
such as the mango, orange, avocado pear, bread-fruit and limes 
are grown to some extent, or occur in a half wild condition. 
I believe the only serious attempt by a white man at agricul- 
ture in the country on a large scale is at Bayeux, and the experi- 
ment is being watched with considerable interest by others. Of 
course the inability of the foreigner to acquire title to land must 
militate against the investment of outside capital, but if that 
restriction be once removed, Hayti, as an agricultural country, 
with its natural advantage of position and almost immunity from 
cyclones, must draw investors and advance rapidly. Many acres 
of valuable cabinet woods, now going to waste, would be an 
added inducement. 
Asa result of the expedition over one thousand numbers for 
the herbarium, represented by about two thousand specimens, 
were secured ; about fifty packets of seed and one hundred speci- 
mens of living plants; a collection of sixty-six species of woods, 
in trunk sections eighteen inches long and from four to twelve 
inches in diameter, numbered to correspond to a suite of herba- 
rium specimens made from the trees —a_ list of the local names 
under the same numbers was also obtained; and a series of one 
hundred and forty photographs, depicting some of the features 
of the island, its vegetation, people and economic conditions. I 
believe no previous collection of woods has been brought from 
the island, and the collection of photographs from the interior is 
perhaps unique. I found botany a neglected science, and few 
appreciated what we were doing. 
The extremely diversified nature of the country must indicate 
an interesting flora, and one probably rich in endemic species. 
Only a small portion of the mountains in the north were reached 
by us, and much more remains to be done even there at some 
other season of the year, preferably February and March. The 
