ing me. Hence it did not [5] take me long to get ashore, satisfy the customs authorities, with the aid of my letter of introduc- tion from the British ambassador at Washington, and reach the hospitable home of my helpful friend, J. Mac Gregor MacDonald, Esq. Mr. MacDonald was a near-by eyewitness of the great eruption of the Soufriere 7 May, 1902, and kept notes which have been published [Century Maga- zine. See also my accts. in Mus. Bull. & Nat.Geog.Mag.]— forming the best, and a most useful, account of what hap- pened on that eventful day. On the day after my arrival, the Hon. C. Gideon Murray, ad-