1894
March 11          
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.L.
Princes town
Mr Gothlith sounds: In a thicket of scrub I heard
              what I supposed at the time was a bird but the
                        same cry was of [?] at Caparo pronounced by
                        Mr Carr to be that of a small green frog. It is
                        a rich, clear whistle of two syllables not unlike
                        our of the calls of [underlined] Colinus virginianus [/underlined] . It sounded
                        to me to be well rendered by the word [underlined] pow - e [/underlined].

                        There were crickets and grasshoppers stridulating in
                         the grass and shrubbery along the roadsides but
                         they were not anywhere at all numerous. The
                         grasshoppers made a sound similar to that of our
                         of our common [underlined] [?] [/underlined] The chirp of the
                         crickets was unlike that of any of our species
                         but not at all loud or [?]

                                As I rode slowly along the smooth dusty
                         road it was difficult to realise that I
                         was in a strange land. Indeed I more than
                         over caught myself foreying that I was on one
                         of the country above Concord. Then the
                         great feathery fronds of a coconut palm would
                         [crossed out] be outlined [/crossed out] appear against the sky and the illusion [crossed out] would
                         [?] [?] dispelled [/crossed out] vanish. On the whole, however, I am
                         [crossed out] constantly [/crossed out] over struck by the resemblance which
                         this country affords to the landscape, thus, skinks
                         and birds of New England than by the differences
                         which exist between the two. In other words I
                         had expected [underlined] everything to be different [/underlined ]whereas many
                         sights & sounds are essentially the same