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Fissure of Jatibonico. Left to right, Cuban naturalist Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta, American paleontologist Barnum Brown, cave discoverer Ramon Gonzalez

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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From Caibarien to Yaguajay it was a short sail by motor boat along the coast in shoal water where one could wade' most of the way and where the only navigable course is marked out by tree branch- es. Seaward were long lines of low- lying sandy keys, the feeding-ground of countless bril- liant flamingos magnified by the mirage into regi- ments of giant British soldiery. Another short jour- ney by narrow gauge road, more sugar plantations and palms and we had reached the high land border- ing the Sierra de Jatibonico. It was in these mountain fastness- es that many Cuban patriots se- creted their fami- lies, where they lived in limestone caves and fissures during the period of Weyler's concentration movement. One of these refugees, Ramon Gonzalez, while dipping water from a fissure one day discovered a jawbone that he recognized was different from that of any creature now living in Cuba. It is of interest to recall here that besides the bats which are more or less migratory, but two other mammals are at present peculiar to the island — namely, the rare insectivore Solcnodon, and the more abundant ratlike tree rodent Capromys. The latter is protected by common consent and now almost venerated by the country people because during the war these •creatures stood between the refugees and starvation. 223 Fissure of Jatibonico during the work of excavation. Left to right. Dr. La Torre, Mr. Brown and the discoverer Senor Ramon Gonzalez

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