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January IStii »®re also giiireii over to collectiag la this 
vieiaity* fh© dredging retuttis here were aaong the best ia the «itire trip* 
A run of feboat ili miles saw as in Black Beach iachorage, Charles 
IclMsd, Janimry iSth, 4»0? p*a*, after a brief stop off Christopher Foint, so 
strikiag & place TOlcaaie&liy tost it wae aoet appropriately sad mmisoasiy 
chi’isteaed the Valley of th® loon. Mo better or more accaimt® rs^roduetioa of 
Ittaar scenery is to b© found any where# 
fh© iahabi teats of Charles Island imm prospered in toeir several ways. 
Iheir gardms are ia better six&.p& sad &re aor© productive, Mid their pieces of 
ia goad spirits, they fcppear 
ffiucb improved. However, though he&itt^' m 
abode 
d e half do sen years in 'the oae yearHt-v-'''6 Ma 
.bout etmrlse on the tweatietfc of Jaauary, we head® 
icadMy Bey, IndefaUgsble Island, not <|uite thirty ailes may. Hex'© I obtained 
two living tortoises, as well &s almlle and skias of. two Just hatched the 
.week before before our arrival aad a tiny one &a iach md & half long from an 
egg of Urn ame litter, broken lovesber 14tb, the day this particular batch of 
eggs was brought com from the tox-tl# country, fhe Ceptaia aeeured a aiaber of 
larger tortoises for the Boa Bl^o loo. 
On Januery blst ts® preceeded to Chathas Isliuid, bat her® sccQa|5i,ish®d 
little beyond a few dredge hsifle. As amoebic dysonteiy was raapnat, we departed 
'the very next soiuing for South Seysour, I was aost una-ious to revisit this 
island cliiefly to obteia aoise dried aud froa to© pools where w® obtoi,a®d fresh 
water phyllopoas Isst yeer, and to seciu'e for the lluseUEi eeveriil siab® of to® 
fossil tooll® discovered h®re by the Hancock Ixpodltion of 19SE, 
aiLlivaa Boy, on th® east side of Jaaes Island, was our ni«t stopi 
J®n,U8,sy EBrd# Her® la the aost picturesqu© md strikingly colored bit of 
