. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . Tuesday ; the wind was still against us, sowe did not go along as rapidly as we otherwise would; still we aver-aged about three hundred miles per day. On Thursday morning, as we made the Mona passage, we sawour first land since leaving New York: Mona rock, a sharp andrugged peak rising from the water on our left; Mona Island, alarge, barren-looking table-land, with precipitous and, in some places,overhanging shores on
. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . Tuesday ; the wind was still against us, sowe did not go along as rapidly as we otherwise would; still we aver-aged about three hundred miles per day. On Thursday morning, as we made the Mona passage, we sawour first land since leaving New York: Mona rock, a sharp andrugged peak rising from the water on our left; Mona Island, alarge, barren-looking table-land, with precipitous and, in some places,overhanging shores on our right. To the extreme right was a littleflat sand-bar of an island. Little Mona, or Monita, and in the fardistance to the left rose the blue mountains of Puerto Rico. As we drew near the passage, many birds came around the ship; THE VOYAGE. 11 among tliem a beautiful tropic bird with a yellow beak, white plu-mage with black wing patches, and long white plumes in its tail,sooty and noddy terns, flocks of boobies, the adults brown above andwhite below, the young uniform plain brown with bluish green facesand beaks. These attempted several times to settle on the rigging. YELLOW-BILLED TROPIC BIKD (PHAETHON FLAVIROSTRIs). of the vessel. Late in the afternoon we saw a tremendous school ofporpoises — all small ones not over four feet long, but there wereat least three hundred of them. The weather was pleasant; there were a few showers, but thetrade wind was constant, and we did not feel the heat. CHAPTER II. THE ISLAND OF CURACAO. Friday, June 17, 1892. We were all up bright and early, keep-ing a sharp lookout for the first sight of land, and about elevenoclock we saw away off on the horizon a faint blue peak which rosefrom the sea, as we drew nearer, and finally spread out into theIsland of Curagao. This island, which now belongs to the Dutch,is long and narrow, and lies Avith its longer axis N. W. and S. is forty miles long and about ten miles wide, and contains an area
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