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ally swarmed through the scrub, — repulsive-looking creatures, some 

 green, some brown, and all spotted and blotched with lighter color. 

 I was told that the green ones were males. They lived in burrows. 



We also saw at a distance some yellow and black orioles {Icterus 

 xanthornus ciirasoensis). Our guide called them "tropiales," but 

 they were not the common troupial. We saw numbers of the mock- 

 ing-birds, but I had no more cartridges, so could not get any. The 

 guide called them ruisenor," which is Spanish for nightingale. I 

 saw a small red butterfly, and some very small grayish blue ones. 



When we returned, we found that in our absence an English 



MAIN STREET, CURACAO. 

 (From Photograph by Soublette.) 



tramp steamer, the Navigator, of the Harrison Line, had come in 

 and would sail for Savanilla the same afternoon, so I hastened over 

 to see her commander. Captain Owen, and secure our staterooms. 

 I found the Navigator to be a large freight steamer with only six 

 staterooms, the accommodations being naturally far inferior in 



