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for water birds in a large (brack water?) lagoon Nun[[?]]. It has a bad reputation for mosquitos. & Saona & Catalina island, which I hope to visit later on are said to be simply unbearable, but are said to abound with bird life. "He who lives will learn?".

Things are reported to be in a very disturbed state over in Hayti [[Haiti]], but it is impossible to get at the real state of affairs & it probably wont affect my collecting work anyhow.

Hope Raim[[?]] got his outfit together in time & has made a good start. Weather is beautiful down here, & I am awfully glad to be down in the tropics again. Three weeks in the big Eastern cities is long enough for me, - too much too - will be very careful in future about transmitting any vegetable material, you may be sure.

Yours very truly
W.L. Abbott

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still can't find lagoon "Nun"