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Jeremie , 
Hayti . 
Feb. 12th 1918 
De ar Ri climond : 
I expect to leave here for Port au Prince on the 14th 
by small sail boat & touch at Gonave Islemcl en route. Ought to be 2 
or 3 weeks on the way as the wind is usually aliead. I am leaving 3 
cases to be shipped to the Museum by first available steamer. One 
may be here in a few days bound south, but few vessels touch here on 
north bound voyage. I don’t wish to risk taking the specimens in 
small boat with me. There are abt. 200 skins & some skeletons belong- 
ing to abt. 55 species. Nothing new or much good. 2 skeletons (both 
t) of pelicans. I can't get 9 somehow or other. /The last attempt to 
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reach mts. of La RKltte ended in failure. I did not reach over 3,000 
feet. A most lovely district called Moline. Coffee right to the simi- 
mits. One of my bo’ns got sick, & I sent him back to Jeremie where he 
died a few days after. The itiier boy got fever pretty bad. I also 
had some fever. 
I found no hill birds except Ricordia swainsoni & Todus angusti- 
rostris. Myiadestes is not singing no^v & it v/as impossible to find 
it. Pverybodv in tlie hills knew it under nane -"La musician." Pleard 
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many "Chat huant" in dense broken jungle country in the 4 section. 
Too dense to see anything. Don't know if it was Nyctibius or Micro- 
siphonorhis. It was lovely up in the hills only for the fever. I 
find the right way to reach La Kotte is to march 9 miles east of 
Jeremie to P.ossau, then up the river of P.ossau to the quartier called 
" Catineau . " This includes the north sloi)e of La Potte. I doubt if 
La Potte is much over 5,000. I was on the hill above Moline at 3,000 
(or a little more) & it was 8 miles across intervening valley "Cat- 
ineau" to La Hotte . Certainly it was not 2,000 feet higher. It seems 
to be covered with pines. Some pine forest at Moline. It wd. be best 
to visit the high lands in June ( Siumner ) when "La Miisician" is- sing- 
ing. 
I had a very pleasant camp; at Moline at 2000 feet, by a clear 
cold river, opposite the little P. .C. church. Plenty to eat, chickens, 
SGGS, sweet potatoes, yfffiis, milk etc. & everybody most friendly, 
now living in hopes of Gonave Island. Cant find any body who has 
ever been there. It is very dry (fev/ spjrings of fresh water) --soil 
very fertile iz much good Guaiac (Lignijm vitae). 
Hojje these 3 cases will eventually reach you via New York all 
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