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down a young Fawn. The animals exactly agree 
with Humboldt’s description of the Cervus Mexicanus 
brownish-red spotted with white, and were no doubt 
imported at the same time with a cargo of mules, 
sheep, and oxen from Cumana. Mr. Townshend says 
that the herds now in the forest are an importation 
of Sir Charles Price’s eighty years ago ; — Sir Charles 
at that time being the proprietor of the Farm pen 
close by. Mr. Townshend’s father used to relate the 
occurrence of their getting from the Farm and taking 
to the Forest, as an incident that happened when he 
was a young man. He was familiarly acquainted 
with Sir Charles, who was a great lover of Natural 
History, and possessed many curious Mammalia and 
birds. An account of his pen in St. Mary’s, called 
the Decoy, will be found in Long’s History of 
Jamaica. It was there he kept his curious Ducks. 
Colonel Harrison, mentioned by me in one of my 
preceding letters as agent for the Farm, was an uncle 
of Mr. Townshend’s, — the name of one of his 
brothers, the Father of the House of Assembly, an 
I octogenarian, being George Harrison Townshend. 
‘‘ The places in which our negro woodmen occa- 
sionally meet these Forest- deer is in some ravine 
' track, or wooded pathway by which the herds descend 
to the springs to drink. They feed at night, resting 
still within the woodlands in the day -light hours. 
They have sometimes been surprised in moonlight 
nights crossing the highway to the Rio Cobre, by an 
j offshoot of their mountain-hold ; — a line of broken 
i hills which gradually lower towards the stream, called 
: the White Marl. It is only by accident that a herd 
