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The cocoa-nut trees and cordias,—Asclepiases and 
-hibiscuses, formed the lines and avenues that they 
do now, and the walks were already bordered with 
large cannon-balls, and soccotrine aloes, but a 
guazuti deer, or a llama, as some say, very likely 
both,—pecearies, and agoutis, sauntered through 
them, and monkies swung at the ends of the flounc- 
ing palm-branches, or leaped from tree to tree; and 
maceaws, big and brilliant in red and blue and blue 
and yellow flung their wings about among the green 
leaves; and cockatoos and parrots and parroquets, 
whistled and chattered away*in the midst of foliage 
and flowers. The place was a perfect zoological 
garden. I found in cages against the wall, the 
margya, and, if J am not mistaken, a superlatively 
fine specimen of the felis tigrina pardalis, the parded 
ocelot. There were some Curacoa birds about.— 
There may perhaps have been a pelican on the 
beach, for this is a common citizen of Port Royal. 
‘There were the usual intermixture of running Mus- 
covy ducks and poultry ; and a carrion-vulture ba- 
Jancing its wings hither and thither, and a man-of- 
war-bird hovering, and a gull scudding: and a booby 
soaring, gave the whole scene an interest to be seen 
concentrated no where out of some pantomime of 
Harlequin Crusoe or Peter Wilkins. 
{ am informed that Colonel Rudyard and Dr. 
Williams of the artillery were the collectors of the 
living wonders that were at that time gathered -to-~ 
gether here, contrasting the quiet rationality of the 
brute world within the parade gardens, with the 
