1894
March 2
St. Lucia
  Clear & cloudy by turns with less wind than
usual. Very hot in the forenoon but pleasantly
cool in the afternoon and evening.

  We left Martinique at midnight and reached
St. Lucia in the early morning running in
to a wharf for the first time since we have been
in the West Indies. The harbor is small but very
pretty with steeply sloping hills and volcanic
mountains hemming in the view on three sides.
The town is small and comparatively uninteresting.
We spent the forenoon in the botanical garden
which is a wonderful example of what can be
done in this region in only eight years time.
It is on level land made at the time this
harbor was dredged and is very tastefully laid
out. The central walk is bordered on both sides
by scouring cush trees at least 40 ft. in height.
They are curiously like larches in their general
appearance and especially in the character and
color of their feathery foliage.

  Coereba martinica, Euetheia bicolor and the three
Hummers Bellona exilis, Eulampis jugularis, & E.
holosericeus were the characteristic and perhaps the
only birds in this garden. We saw a Green Heron
also. It passed just above the tops of the trees
calling keough exactly in the tone of our bird.
On a wooded hill just outside the town a
bird was singing which did not know. It was
apparently a Dendroica & uttered four or five loud notes