1894
March 17
(No 2)  
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo

        and the next moment it began thrashing about
     making a tremendous noise. We[?] went into the thicket
              with a cutlass in our hand and a bullsd' up continued
                        in the other and found a large water rat?one of
                        Chapman's new species of last year, first in one of
                        C: traps into which he had seen, quite by accident,
                        when startled by our approach.

                             On reaching a large cocoa plantation beyond the
                        creek the dogs were put out and all my
                        companions followed them but I remained in the
                        road preferring to watch and listen than above.
                        It was bright mooonlight and many nocturnal creatures
                        were astir. The tree toad was making his prodigous
                        clatter near the creek, every now and then an
                        Owl hooted, and then there was a sushing
                        sound of wings close to my head. Chapman afterwards
                        told me that it was undoubtedly made by a big
                        fruit bat but I saw nothing although the noise            
                        was equal to that which an Eagle would have made.
                        The dogs finally started a Mamicon but it escaped
                        them and the hunters came back empty handed
                        an hour later.