1894
March 13
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  Most of the day spent in unpacking and
arranging our things. Chapman and the three Carrs
with [?] went off into the woods in the forenoon
and set a number of traps. They saw a number
of Trogons and heard Toucans and Motmots. After a
while one of the Carrs returned with the news that
some men whom we had sent out to get palm
leaves to thatch the hut where we are to do our
work had startled two deer. He took his gun and
three or four dogs and started after them. For two
hours or more we heard nothing of him or the dogs
but after the others had returned and just as
we were finishing dinner the distant yelping of the
dogs and the sound of a horn warned us that
the game was coming our way. Instantly everything
was in the greatest confusion. Mr. Albert Carr
begged for my gun and picking up two shells loaded
with no 1 shot dashed off through the cacao grove as
fast as he could run. Chapman and another Carr
followed him and negroes and Spaniards armed
with guns, cutlasses and sticks appeared from
every side and ran across the opening towards the
river. Every now and then a dog yelped on the
wooded ridge and presently two shots were fired
in quick succession by Chapman who had a
perfectly open shot at the deer at about 40 yards
distance - as I afterwards learned. He wounded
the animal severely and after running a few
hundred yards it turned back towards the river
and Albert killed it with my gun or
rather so nearly finished it that the dogs and