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Still covered with heavy forest on summits. - Flatter larh. about 
the town is all cleared or covered with secondary forest. Rainfall 
heavy. 
Hotel Aleman kept by Herman Hagen. Fare a day. Ihny 
nauralists have stayed here. 
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SAiilalii - Town of 1500 inhabitants, about 20 miles east of 
Sanchez. District mostly English speaking as a colony of Philadelphia 
and New Jersey negroes were settled here under President Boyer of 
Haiti in 1820 and 1822. 
Town situated on a little btc; formed by a chain of islands on 
north side of Samsna Bay. Vegetation is very luxuriant owing to 
heavy rainfall. Fruit and food abundant and fairly cheap. hot much 
heavy (virgin) forest in immediate vicinity, but there is plenty of 
large secondary jungle. Ho. Hotel , but boarding house kept by Beckie 
. - -s 
Des^^(,may, who speaks English {?). Food good, clean. ^3 per diem. 
LAGUNA ~ A scattered settlement mostly English speaking about 
6 miles N.M.W. of Samana. In spite of name there is no lake here. 
A good bit of cleared land and secondary jung'le. Plenty of heavy 
forest. The Pilon d'Azucar (peak 1600 feet) rises north of the clear- 
ing. I^ole range of hills to northward covered with unbroken forest 
to north coast of Peninsula. Road from Samana very muddy in the rain, 
Aiftroad crossed ridge north of S. town and descends to the Rio San Juan, 
which it follows for 2 miles, mostly in the river bed, then the trail 
turns to right and over another ^mall ridge to the valley of Laguna. 
