1894
March 16         
(No 4)    
Trinidad, B.W.I
  Caparo
 Hutton Buggit run to throat of it. I declined at
      first but the distance was so great - fully 200yds
                    that I felt him my [?] would do no
                    harm so I finally find. The [?] at over
                    started and crossed the road into the woods
                    moving slowly and with a curious gait, half
                    lop, half trot the head carried very low. Hutton
                    [crossed out] at over [/crossed out] then ran back to the [?] and presently
                    [?] with the [?] and the whole pack
                    of dogs which [?] over took the track and
                    opened with their usual shrill clamour. The [?]
                    soon [?] beyond light and hairy and
                    it was ten o'clock before the [?] returned
                    They had followed the dogs for miles through
                    the forest but the [?] did not give them
                    a shot.

                      I turned back of course and met Chapman      "[underlined] Po-mi-oiu" [/underlined]
                    as in [?] [?] [?] borrowed in [?]
                    a large bird which is at first took for an Owl
                    sitting on the top of a shrub about 30ft above
                    the ground, in a young cacao plantation. Every half
                    minute or so it would launch out into the
                    air after a flying insect and then return to its
                    perch. The shape & proportions of wings and tail
                    showed at over that it was an Owl but a
                    gigantic [?] ([underlined] Nyclifius [?] [/underlined] ) - the
                    bird which according to Carr is the "Po-mi-oiu"
                   which Chapman heard last year & which most
                   of the country people believe (that is the cry, not
                   the bird) to be a Sloth