ministrator of the colony, [6] gave me an interview in the course of which he cordially pledged the cooperation of the insular government with the American Museum in the preparation of a large-scale topographic map of the region surrounding the crater of the Soufrière. The plan was for Mr. J. Landreth Smith, the Crown surveyor of the colony, to go into camp with me on the mountain, and Tues- day afternoon I took my outfit with me to Chateaubelair by ca- noe, a heavy [illegible] bulky load for the little conveyance, leaving Mr. Smith to follow me by the regular mail canoe on the next day. He came according