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of the luggage, and the little fellow, about five years old, made up the party. We provided lunch, but it looked like a small quantity to feed so many boys, but after arriving in the woods the man dug yams, a root resembling in look and taste an Irish potato, but in shape like a large, long, sweet potato. The native choppers were about finishing their stent for the week, and went away leaving their cooking fire by a stump, and their hut, made of sticks and leaves. The house had two rooms, and in it their bed, which is made first by laying a log across the room on the ground where the head was to rest. Then fern leaves, dry, were laid till it was quite soft and smooth , then a native mat laid over. This is the general native style of bed. The occupants each wrap in a blanket, if they need it, and thus stretch themselves, men, women, and children, all on one bed, which is often half the house. The head is usually towards the middle of the room. Well, we had this house to ourselves to sit or recline. We roasted our yams, then spread a banana leaf on the ground for a tablecloth. One leaf is from any length, to ten feet, and to two feet wide, so you see it is quite a tablecloth. The yams made an abundance for our meal, with what we had before as a dessert. We ate sitting around on the ground, and with our fingers, in primitive style. I think we all enjoyed the day very much. I did at least. I gathered some nice specimen s of ferns. The roads were very muddy most of the way, the horses going down to their knees, and it seemed as if they could never get up again without breaking their legs. We rode for several miles along a flume of water through the plantation, made for floating cane and wood to the mill. This is a substitute for carting, The descent is such as to carry cane in bundles from the extreme part of the plantation, to the mill with very little attention. There are often branches or tributaries to them, and are often carried over ravines, which makes a very high bridge or aqueduct. The water as it comes into the mill, furnishes all needed water power, also supplies the engine. The fuel for the engine is, to a great extent, supplied from the sugar cane stalks, after being ground and dried, called trosh?. We had good appetites in the woods, and better for our dinner