1894
Feb. 23
(No 3)
St. Thomas.
very few house flies, one small butterfly and
a bee of some kind.
  A Lizard which looked like our Chamelion
was clinging to the wall in a garden and
I caught glympses of other of larger size
along the roadside.
  As we steamed away from St. Thomas at
3 P.M. on our way to St. Croix we had
a fine view of the western and southern coast
and mountain slopes. At a distance of a
mile or two from store the whole face of
the country looked brown or yellowish brown
with a few dots or belts of green.
  A few white birds, perhaps Royal Terns, were
flying about the harbor but none of
them came nearer than half-a-mile & I
could not identify them.
  Perhaps the prettiest bits we saw on shore
this morning were the walled-in courts and
gardens with their palms, lime trees and yucca
like plants. These, seen through low, broad arches
which opened on the street, were singularly
picturesque but more oriental than American-
tropical as it seemed to me,