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had been described many many years before by Peters from 

 a specimen caught up at Tumbez near the Ecuadorian fron- 

 tier and which had never been found again until we caught 

 our one tiny windfall. 



We returned from the Congress with General Gorgas 

 and his family: they were bound for Panama but we were 

 going only as far as southern Peru. We were together for 

 two weeks on the old Chilean ship, the Li?7mri. We hadn't 

 been on board long when Rosamond found that one of 

 the two bathroom doors was always locked. This was ex- 

 tremely inconvenient, and she spent some time spying out 

 the cause. After some conniving she got a look into the 

 room and found that the bathtub was full of water in which 

 were swimming a number of goldfish. 



Bishop Pierola, the shepherd of the enormous Indian 

 diocese of Huanuco in the Andes of Peru, had been to 

 make his ad limma visit to the Sovereign Pontiff in Rome. 

 He had acquired the goldfish, and his chaplain, being 

 charged with their safekeeping, had simply bribed the bath 

 steward and taken up one of the two bathrooms in the 

 ship for the Bishop's goldfish. They stayed there, too. 



Later on General Gorgas, who did not speak much Span- 

 ish, came to me and asked me to tell the 7f70zo in charge of 

 the one remaining bathroom that he wanted clean water. 

 The fresh-water supply was locked up and we couldn't 

 run our own baths as the supply was limited; hence the 

 necessity of calling the ?}70Z0. (Gorgas had not learned 

 Spanish on purpose, because, as he said, he had so many 

 difficult duties and such unpleasant ones, in connection 

 with the sanitation of Panama, the burning of buildings 

 and worse, that he did not wish to be able to understand 



