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chids and very many other forms of 

 plant life. 



At Bath we had a charming tem- 

 porary home at the lodgings of Mrs. 

 Duffy, who is widely known and appre- 

 ciated by all travelers in Jamaica. 



Perhaps the neat, home-like attrac- 

 tions of Mrs. Duffy's lodgings would 

 not have impressed us so forcibly if we 

 had not come to them from a week at 

 Manchioneal, where our accommoda- 

 tions at the only house open to stran- 

 gers were intolerable. The lodgings (a 

 name applied to the small hostelries 

 throughout the island, there being no 

 hotels, excepting at a few of the larger 

 settlements) were admirably situated for 

 our work, close to the shore at the 

 head of the little harbor. Our sea- 

 weeding was so successful here that we 

 were willing to endure even greater 

 hardships. The mistress of the house, 



