1894
Feb. 28
(No 3)
Dominica
  We reached Dominica about 11a.m. and
coasted the leeward side of the island for about
twenty miles before reaching the town where
we cast anchor and remained until midnight.
Chapman came out in a boat to meet us. He
had engaged some horses for a trip inland and
with Mr. & Mrs. Clark, Miss Clark, and Miss Savin
we went ashore and started, Chapman and
Miss Savin on horseback the rest of the party
in two small, two-wheeled carts.        
The road led up a narrow valley down which
rushed a shallow but rather wide stream 
which reminded me forcibly of swim of our
New Hampshire rivers - such as the [?]
or Peabody River. On both sides rose steep or
vertical walls of volcanic mountains and over we
passed through a large circular basin, evidently the
crator of an old volcano.  At every few roads a
turn in the narrow, winding roads opened to the
view a fresh peak or ravine. The luxuriance and
variety of the vegetation utterly defy my powers of
description for them were not only innumerate kinds
of indigenous plants and trees but also crowded
plantations of such exotics as cocao, breadfruit,
bananas, sugar cane etc. The cliffs were hanging
gardens so densely draped with [?]ing vines,
drooping shrubs and stiff yet graceful orchids
that it was difficult to find a single place where
the rock to which they cling could be seen.
Near the head of one of the valleys rose a waving
streamer of smoke or  steam-foam or geyser