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behavior." Since the ensuing British occupation and later rehnquish- 

 nient of the Bay Islands have been mentioned elsewhere, we may 

 conclude this brief historical sketch of Port Royal with the above 

 somewhat anticlimactic afifair. 



We spent the day of May 5, 1934, in exploring Port Royal Harbor. 

 It was a clear, windy day, and the guardian reefs were lines of high, 

 white breakers, but inside the blue waters of the harbor were placid. 

 We came in the west channel (see map, fig. 8) and passed the two 

 rocks, the Cow and the Calf, on the former of which there is said to 

 have been a cannon, but only the emplacement now remains. Bird's 

 map of the harbor shows another old cannon on the mainland opposite, 

 but we did not see this. These guns, with others on Cusack Cay, 

 would have made entry to this channel extremely hazardous. We 

 anchored at the head of the bay, where the small stream comes in, 

 and visited an American by the name of Painter, who was the only 

 occupant of the bay we encountered. He had several complete rum 

 or sack bottles which he had found near his house (pi. 4, fig. 2). 

 In type -they closely resemble English sack bottles of the seventeenth 

 century." Under his guidance we proceeded about 100 yards up the 

 small creek, the bed of which was littered with fragments and basal 

 portions of irregularly blown, heavy green bottles of the sort illus- 

 trated. Here, cut out of a crumbly limestone clif?, is a rectangular 

 cave about 35 by 15 feet in floor dimensions and about 5 feet high 

 (fig. 9). The square walls and columns clearly indicate an artificial 

 origin. The floor is composed of soft dust and dirt, but an apparent 

 lack of artifacts, combined with the none too safe appearance of the 

 cave walls, discouraged extensive digging. To the east of the creek 

 Mr. Payne discovered some stone house foundations about 80 feet 

 long and 20 feet wide. These were in dense bush and their total 

 extent was not determined. They may or may not be the same as the 

 "fortifications" indicated on Bird's sketch map (see map, fig. 8). 

 Mr. Painter stated that there were stone foundations of what ap- 

 peared to be a town, with a stone paved road leading to the shore, 

 on the point west of his house (see map, fig. 8), but our time was too 

 short to permit us to visit the place. This is probably the English 

 or buccaneer town which the Spanish destroyed in 1782. 



Leaving the creek mouth, we returned across the harbor to George, 

 or, as it is locally known. Fort Cay. After considerable wandering 

 through almost impenetrable low bushes we reached the battery that 



"* Compare the type shown in the Illustrated London News, p. 902, fig. 3 c, 

 Dec. 3, 1932. 



