1894
March 13
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
cutlasses did the rest after the poor creature had
taken to the river as a last desperate resort.
The noise during this final scene (which, fortunately,
I did not witness) was something tremendous. The
wren yelled and screamed, the dogs yelped and
barked and the deer, as Carr afterwards assured
us, added its voice to the general clamor "bawling",
as he expressed it, loudly. It repeatedly struck
the dogs and forced them under water but the
pretty[?] little curs stuck to it closely through
the whole melee.
  I went only to the first search[?] of the river
when Chapman had taken his stand. Presently
the men came with the deer which one of them
bore on his shoulders. It was an odd-looking
animal with short, rounded ears, very small
pointed head, delicate hoofs and rather short, stout
legs. The entire head and neck were practically
devoid of hair and the skin was a dark
slaty color. It was a doe and pregnant, the
[?] being of nearly full size and prettily spotted.
The weight of the doe "undressed" was 808 1/2 pounds.
Carr says that this species never exceeds 90
pounds in weight. The male has small horns[?] but
they are always covered with skin. There is
another species of deer found here which has
naked horns[?].

  In the afternoon four beautiful Tanagers (Calliste
flaviventris vieilloti) came into the cacao trees near
the house & I shot at one of them but missed it.