Text Appearing Before Image: 250 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL at Vera Cruz, July 9. The sky was cloudless, and vegetation showed all signs of prolonged drought. During the day the breeze from the sea was refreshing, but each evening this died away leaving the night hot and uncomfortable. After two days at Vera Cruz, I went south on the Vera Cruz al Isthmo Railroad, passing alternately through savannas of mesquite and palms and extensive, beautiful jungles. Leaving the train at the Santa Rosa flag station on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, an hour's ride brought me to the rubber plantation La Buena Ventura, where it was my good fortune to experience for ten days the hospitality of )\L-. J. C. Harvey, one of the owners. ^Ir. Harvey has extensive knowledge of tropical plant and animal life and is a specialist on palms and orchids. His house is surrounded by a veritable botanical garden of trees and other plants from all parts of the world, while the plantation itself is picturesquely shut in by the jungle. Text Appearing After Image: TRAP-DOOR SPIDER CHORIZOPS LORICATUS. But <ine other specimen is known.
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