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Ecuador to continue the work begun by himself and Mr. 

 Anthony in 1920. He was accompanied by Mr. 



ExpedidlT Geoffre y T - Gill > and later was j° ined b y Mr - 



G. H. H. Tate, who represented the Department 

 of Mammals. Work was progressing satisfactorily when, on 

 the morning of September 21, the accidental discharge of both 

 barrels of Mr. Cherrie's shotgun, held in his left hand while 

 he was retrieving a bird with his right, sent a charge of num- 

 ber eight shot through his forearm, severing the ulna. Such 

 ineffective first-aid treatment as could be given so serious a 

 wound was at once applied, and as soon as animals could be 

 secured he started for the port of Santa Rosa, distant eighty- 

 five miles, where he planned to catch the weekly steamer for 

 Guayaquil. The pain occasioned by his wound was so ex- 

 cessive that he was unable to ride on the level or down hill, 

 and consequently walked all the way except up-grade. The 

 trip included the ascent and descent of a mountain 8,000 feet 

 in height. He was able to get very little to eat that he could 

 retain, and was assured by the sympathetic natives he 

 encountered, that, as he was mortally wounded, why 

 eat anyway 1 The last day of the three-day journey to 

 Santa Rosa, they took the trail at midnight in the hope of 

 getting the boat that left Santa Rosa at 8 A. M., but arrived 

 three hours after it had left. Since his life depended upon 

 catching the boat, they started after it in a canoe, and by 

 great good fortune caught it at a port further down the river 

 at midnight, just fifteen minutes before it sailed. The last 

 day, therefore, he was under way for twenty-four hours, and 

 until he reached the steamer he had not slept from the time 

 of his accident. Guayaquil was reached at 1 P. M. on Sep- 

 tember 25. By this time his arm was as large as his leg, and 

 so gangrenous that his life was despaired of. An operation 

 was performed as soon as possible, and the shattered sections 

 of the ulna removed. Mr. Cherrie's condition then began to 

 improve under the care of an American physician, Doctor 

 Parker, and five weeks later, taking advantage of the return 

 to this country of our resident health officer at the port of 

 Guayaquil, he came with him to New York. He reached us 

 in a really remarkable condition, when one considers all of 

 his experiences, with a wound that was healing as rapidly 



