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Dominica 
We reached Dominica about 11 A. M. and coasted 
the leeward side of the island for about twenty miles, 
before reaching the town where we cast anchor and remained 
until midnight. Chapman came out in a boat to meet us. 
He had engaged some horses for a trip inland and with 
Mr. and Mrs. Clark, Miss Clark, and Miss Savin we went 
ashore and started, Chapman and Miss Sa,vin on horseback, 
the rest of the party in two small, two-wheeled carts. 
The road led up a narrow valley down which rushed 
a shallow but rather wide stream which reminded me forcibly 
of some of our New Hampshire rivers — such as the Pemi- 
gewassett or Peabody River. On both sides rose steep or 
vertical walls of volcanic mountains and once we passed 
through a large circular basin, evidently the crater of 
an old volcano. At every few rods a turn in the narrow, 
winding roads opened to the view a fresh peak or ravine. 
The luxuriance and variety of the vegetation utterly defy 
my powers of description for there were not only innumer¬ 
able kinds of indigenous plants and trees but also crowded 
plantations of such exotics as cacao, bread fruit, bananas, 
sugar cane, etc. The cliffs were hanging gardens, so 
densely draped with swinging vines, drooping shrubs and 
stiff yet graceful orchids that it was difficult to find a 
single place where the rock to which they clung could be 
