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bined to make the moment ripe for the 

 attempt. 



A small steamboat, the "Corozal," of 

 about forty tons, was chartered in 

 Belize with a crew of ten, and these 

 with the expedition staff and servants 

 made a total of seventeen on board. 

 The "Corozal," in palmier days, several 



tion consisted of the writer ; Mr. A. W. 

 Carpenter, the photographer; Dr. G. 

 Underbill, the physician; and two col- 

 laborators. Dr. T. Gann, Chief Medical 

 Officer of British Honduras, and Mr. 

 S. K. Lothrop, of Harvard University. 

 The expedition sailed from Belize on 

 March 19 and two days later anchored 



The breakers run high at Tuloom. The beacli slopes gently so that our dory was brought within a 

 hundred feet of the land. Here the boys took the baggage of the expedition on their shoulders and 

 waded ashore 



decades earlier, had been a tugboat in 

 the United States. Having outlived 

 her usefulness, or perhaps better her 

 "safefulness," in this country — it was 

 understood she had been condemned 

 here— she had been sent to Belize for 

 use in the coastwise shipping trade. 

 Her pilot assured the writer that, 

 "Thirty years ago when she had a 

 gold h'eagle h'up for'ards she were a 

 good boat !" The staff of the expedi- 



inside the reef off Tuloom. The trip 

 had been uneventful except for the com- 

 plete and scientific demonstration that 

 the "Corozal" could not under any cir- 

 cumstances do the nine knots an hour 

 her owner generously and optimisti- 

 cally accredited her. The truth was 

 that by crowding her boilers beyond a 

 reasonable margin of safety and with 

 the current in her favor, she managed 

 to limp along at six. 



