Raptor, I am ashamed to say that, although once a singularly voracious reader, I have never even heard the names of these authors. But now that you have lauded them, I may well be tempted to take one of them on in the event of an encounter. Bobert, I hope one day to read Huxley's "Beyond the Mexique Bay". D A G Waddell, who taught at the University of Edinburgh, opens his Preface to "British Honduras: A Historical and Contemporary Survey" with an intriguing quotation from this work of Huxley which has served to whet my appetite.