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In a little pool filled with small lily pads and 
a leaf that resembled our floating heart we caught a pair 
of water beetles of about the size of our large Dytiscus 
and evidently belonging to that genus but of a uniform 
dull black color. 
Lizards were abundant about the fountain. There 
were two kinds, one grass green, the other drab with a dull 
red throat. The latter were from twelve to eighteen inches 
long and singularly alert and intelligent-looking. One 
picked up a palm berry and took it off in its mouth. 
The garden soil in this Park is of much the same 
color and general appearance as that in Cambridge gardens. 
After the showers it emitted the same delicious fresh 
earthy small. The roses also were similar to ours but of 
rather more straggling and weedy growth. 
The only water birds which I have seen here are 
a few Brown Pelicans. They walk about on the beach within 
a few rods of men at work and float like buoys among the 
boats or fly about close to the wharf and plunge down after 
fish, disappearing for a moment beneath the surface. 
One of our passengers who visited a sugar plantation 
to-day reports that the Mongoose was introduced on this 
island from Jamaica six years ago and is now very abundant 
