-47 
1894 
M arch 2 
St. Lu cia . 
Clear and cloudy by turns, with less wind than usual. Very 
hot in the forenoon, but pleasantly cool in the afternoon and 
evening. 
We left Martinique at midnight and reached St. Lucia 
in the early morning, running in to a wharf for the first 
time since we have been in the West Indies. The harbor is 
small but very pretty, with steeply sloping hills and vol¬ 
canic mountains hemming in the view on three sides. The town 
is small and comparatively uninteresting. We spent the fore¬ 
noon in the botanical garden which is a wonderful example 
of what can be done in this region in only eight years time. 
It is on level land made at the time the harbor was dredged 
and is very tastefully laid out. The central walk is bor¬ 
dered on both sides by scouring rush trees at least 40 feet 
in height. They are curiously like larches in their general 
appearance and especially in the character and color of 
their feathery foliage, 
Coereba martinica , Euethia bicolor and the three 
Hummers -- BelIona exilis, Eulampis jugularis and Eulampis 
holosericens — were the characteristic and perhaps the 
only birds in this garden. We saw a Green Heron, also. 
It passed just above the tops cf the trees calling ke ough 
exactly in the tone of our bird. On a wooded hill just 
outside the town a bird was singing which I did not know. 
