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It was apparently a Dendroica and uttered four or five loud 
notes. In this, as in all West Indian towns which I have 
seen, tame pigeons of various colors, looking exactly like 
our own birds, are very numerous. 
In the afternoon we walked about the town and 
visited the fish market where we saw a large "dolphin 11 with 
orange spurs on the back and a number of small silvery 
all 
fish /of the same kind. There were none of the extraordinary 
painted creatures which I saw at Santa Cruz. 
We left our anchorage at 5 P. M. and reached the 
celebrated Pitons at the southern end of the island before 
it was fairly dark. The scenery along this coast surpasses 
anything that we have seen before. The country is every¬ 
where covered with dense primitive forest and is exceedingly 
wild and mountainous. Nearly all the mountains have the 
conical volcanic form. 
The heavens to-night were magnificent beyond any¬ 
thing that I ever imagined possible even for these latitudes. 
At least 100 stars equal in apparent size and brilliancy 
to Jupiter and Venus as we see them at the North were 
blazing in the sky and Jupiter and Sirius looked like small 
moons. We first ss,w the true and the false Southern crosses 
at St. Christopher. They were very fine to-night. All the 
stars seemed to hang very 
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False cross True Cross 
