Travellers, [illegible], the cocoa etc. Almost all tropical fruits were growing in the garden: bananas, cocoa, ginger, nutmeg, coconuts, cotton, coffee, figs. Another common African tree was the Acci with red pendulent fruit which is edible. Soy-wood was a common brush everywhere in fields; beans like trees were common in gardens. Coco palms & a green century plant was common on the hillside in a wild state. The island is everywhere covered by brushes & small forest trees, the grassy spaces being few. Everything so verdant & humid. We returned to the steamer at 5 P.M. & sailed out of the harbor at 6:30 at dusk. In the harbor I saw only a few frigate birds; about the town were many black vultures, marblers, & [illegible] 9 Weather warm sea smooth 10: Arrived at Colom at 1 P.M.; Sea smooth, sky overcast Took rooms at the Hotel