Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-02-25)

ybg Port of Spain, Trinidad, W. I. Friday. Feb 25th 1876 Dear Prof. Ward:

    We have just got in from a long

pull up the Caroni River - went 13 miles - and I find I have time to write you for the mail that closes tomorrow for St Thomas. I have written you by </u every > mail so far - this is the third letter.

    We arrived here from Barbadus last Monday

afternoon, having left on Saturday night pre- vious - the 79th Came on the schooner "Ocean Traveller", Cabin passage cost $10. so we took deck passage at 10. </u shillings > and buying our own provisions for the trip cost just 11s. more. It was the most uncomfortable and thoroughly disagreeable passage I ever experienced, considering there were 25 other negras on deck also. We did not waste any time in Barbados, I can assure you. I came away without visiting several places I wished to, but failed for lack of time. We called on the U. S. Consul as soon as we landed & found him out. Then for the next week we were too busy to go, and when we did go, we were told he had gone to Tobago, and would not return until Sunday, at which time we were on our way here. So have failed to see him at all, I'm sorry to say. But we did not require any assistance from him atall. I left our card at the first.

    Your letter arrived on the Liverpool Steamer

last Tuesday - the day after we arrived. I remember distinctly all that Mr Taggart,- Leggetts clerk said to me about what has since proved to be the copper cans. He sim- ply showed me a little slip of paper on which was a street and number - nothing more and said " a package has been re-