BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 35 
visited, reminding one very strongly of Italian cities along the 
coast of the Mediterranean, the architecture being distinctly 
Moorish. 
There was no formality at all about going ashore, and all were 
eager to go. Henderson, Thomas, and I paid our respects to 
Rear Admiral Oliver, the Governor of the Virgin Islands; being 
introduced by Dr. Nies, who later took us in charge and did the 
honors of host at ‘‘Bluebeard’s Tower,’’ which he had very com- 
pletely restored and from the top of which is a very charming 
view of the town and its surroundings, together with the port 
and island-studded sea. In the evening we enjoyed a call from 
Dr. Butler, U. S. N., who was surgeon on the U. S. S. ‘‘ Alba- 
tross’’ when I was aboard during the Hawaiian cruise of 1902. 
I was not aware that he was stationed here and we had a most 
interesting confabulation on old times. He was accompanied 
by Dr. Haakensen, U.S. N., with whom I had become acquainted 
the summer before. 
From that time on we ‘‘made a port”’ at least once a day, and 
this is what makes the West Indian cruises of the Quebec Com- 
pany so ideal, affording as it does its daily quota of novel 
scenes and strange people. Each island has its individual and 
peculiar customs which tempt the visitor to linger even longer 
than the time-tables of the steamers allow. St. Croix, or as 
many people call it, Santa Cruz, another of the Virgin Islands, 
was visited the next day. Here we met with the novel and not 
altogether pleasant port regulation which forced all passengers 
to get up early in the morning to have their passports examined. 
These are taken ashore and retained, to be called for by the 
passengers when they return to the ship, a rather senseless pro- 
ceeding, it seemed to us, and one not required at any other port 
at which we touched. 
The whole matter of port regulations is beyond the compre- 
hension of the ordinary civilian. Each island has its own pro- 
eedure, and this bears no evident relation to the regulations of 
any other island. It would seem to the unilluminated mind 
that two islands belonging to the same government, namely 
the United States, and under the jurisdiction of the same Gov- 
ernor, as is the case with St. Thomas and St. Croix, would have 
the same, or at least similar port regulations. But the powers 
