42 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on an Ornithological 



The following itinerary will serve as a guide to the route 

 taken in the Islands and indicates clearly the base-camps 

 from which collections were made. 



Itinerary of the Expedition. 



Left Las Palmas, Gran Oanaria. . . . May 4th. 



Arrived Puerto Cabras,Fuerteveiitura. . May oth. 



Camp 1. Caldereta, Fuerteventura .... May 5th to 6th. 



„ 2. Toston, „ May 6th to 10th. 



,, 3. La Pena, „ May 10th to 14th. 



„ 4. Antigua, „ May 14th to 16th. 



„ 6. Puerto Cabras, „ .... May 16th to 18th. 



Arrived Tinosa, Lanzarote May 19th. 



Camp 6. Playa Jauuvio, Lanzarote . . May 19th to 22ud. 



„ 7. San Miguel de Teguise, „ . . May 22nd to 23rd. 



„ 8. Haria, Lanzarote May 23rd to 27th. 



„ 9. Isla Graciosa May 27th to June 7th. 



f,, 10. Isla Montana Clara June 7th to 14th. 



J (From which Camp the Roque del Oueste 



j was visited on June 11th.) 



[__„ 11. Isla AUegranza Juue 9th to 14th. 



„ 12. Haria, Lanzarote June 14th to loth, 



„ 13. Arrecife, „ June 15th to 16th. 



Arrived Puerto Cabras, Fuerteventura . June 17th. 



„ Gran Tarajal, „ . . June 17th. 



„ Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. . . . June 18th. 



EUERTE VENTURA, 



Early in the morning of May the 5th, the little steamer 

 in which we had made the voyage from Las Palmas dropped 

 anchor off Puerto Cabras, the principal town of Fuerte- 

 ventura. She had previously touched at the small port of 

 Gran Tarajal, some twenty miles further south, where we 

 landed on our return journey ^. Puerto Cahras is not by 

 any means a beautiful village, but in the early morning light 

 it possessed a certain picturesqueness with its square white 

 houses built on the slope of a hill. 



Camels are the beasts of burden in the eastern Canary 

 Islands ; indeed it is almost impossible to hire a mule for 



* See p. 88. 



Visited 

 concur- 

 rently. 



