126 Unein. 11 June, 1891. The splendid peak of little Martinique loominy over them all. After a while we were skillfully piloted by our Captain through an intricate passage between rocks and coral shoals to calm water opposite the village of Clifton, and then dropped anchor at 6 o'clock having been 5½ hours doing the run. We landed and walked to Clifton House. The shore was a white sandy one with any amount of sea-weed, shells, and drift-seeds and work on the beach. I picked up a large palm seed that had evidently come from Brazil. Just beyond the beach was a thicket of manchineel and sea-side grape trees, and beyond them the land was somewhat marshy and riddled with crab-holes, a little further inland an stable of cotton-brushes, the crop having been ruined. We wound our way through the marshy land and ascended the hill on which Clifton House stood. The vegetation is composed principally of Lantana Camara, wild black Dog-Cadia sp., Cupreum Bacatum, Blumeria alba, and the floor is carpeted by a small plant called "turtle weed" because the turtles feed on it. I gathered specimens of this weed for Kerr. The only birds I saw were the black birds by Quiscula. 127 Unein the long tail' 11 June, 1891 Lumino and Crotaphaga aurea, a thrush, Mimius gilvus, and the little dove Zenaida martimica. The parrots and the cockrobes are found in the hills, as is also the West Indian Cuckoo in the Spring. Along the head-side of the hill in the village of Clifton. In the day I find the hill had been terraced with stone and on the wide ledges the pig's houses has been built, and here they were still, or rather new-houses in the place of the old ones. The huts were built of wattles with rattled sides and thatched roofs, and they were quite twenty chicken-holes. Between the village and the flat top of the hill was an enormous stone cistern with a circular stone roof. This cistern gathered the rain-water from the roof of the "quat-horn" and it is, I think, the largest cistern of the kind I have seen for there are no others in the island. It is necessary for the rain to be conserved when possible. The house is built entirely of stone, but it is terribly out of repair, and the roof leaks very much. It was built sometime last century and it must have been a five minutes at its time. At a little distance from the house on a spur of the hill is an old hut in which I found an ancient pipe-powder-gun.