40 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE SUNSET-BIRD.— HUMMING-BIRDS. 
THE CRATER-TARN. — TEMPORARY CAMPS.— THE “SOLEIL COU- 
CHER.” — ‘‘HEAR THE SUNSET.’’—A BIRD POSSESSED. OF THE 
DEVIL. — THE CAPTURE.— A SPECIES NEW TO THE WORLD. — 
FOUR SPECIES OF HUMMING-BIRDS.— THE GARNET-THROAT 
AND GILT-CRESTED.— DAN, THE HUNTER. — CATCHING BIRDS 
WITH BREAD-FRUIT JUICE.—IN CAPTIVITY. — DEATH. — THEIR 
FOOD.— METHODS OF CAPTURE.— THE HUMMING-BIRD GUN.— 
THE AERIAL DANCE. 
N all the Caribbee Islands there are volcanoes, 
many of them still at work, ejecting, not lava, but 
steam and sulphur fumes. In the mountains one finds 
numerous tarns of clear, cold water, filling these ex- 
tinct craters to the brim, and pouring their surplus 
flood down the mountain sides to form rivers in the 
valleys below. How came they there, these lakes 
of unknown depth? Are they fed by subterranean 
streams, or have the craters become choked, and, in- 
stead of vomiting forth water, and gases generated 
in the center of the earth, become merely receptacles 
for the drainage of surrounding mountains? Who 
knows? We only know that we cannot sound their 
depths with plummet-line, and that the water is pure 
and tasteless. Ages and ages have they existed here, 
and he must be more than geologist, and acquainted 
with the plans of a great Creator, who would answer 
these questions. 
