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anything else that Ricker regarded as good picture material. 
The only restrictions were regarding shipping in the harbor and 
gun emplacements. Not only Ricker, but other members of the 
party having cameras, were free to use them ad libitum during 
our stay. 
We were cautioned by Mr. Sanderson to be careful about 
using lights that could be seen from the sea, a caution that we 
were very willing to heed, although on one occasion the author- 
ities notified me that a light on Pelican Island had been reported 
as visible from off the coast. 
After lunch Albert Ashby, the diver that I had employed 
the summer before, came to see me and I engaged him to serve 
as a diver and boatman for a month. As will be seen. he re- 
mained in our services not only while we were at Barbados, but 
also accompanied us to Antigua and stayed during nearly all 
of our work there. 
We also made arrangements to secure the services of a fish- 
erman named Burke, recommended by Mr. Gill, and his boat, 
two boatmen, and four fish-pots, for four weeks. By this 
means our larder was largely supplied with fish, and we secured 
many specimens for our collections. 
I went out with Burke in a small boat, taking Albert along, to 
make a preliminary survey of the nearest reefs. There were 
acres of branched Porites in two or three fathoms, and many 
clavate colonies of Orbicella, this form of colony being differ- 
ent from those I had seen in the Bahamas, where they were 
usually rounded heads. Jsopora palmata was also common. 
Burke was evidently pleased with the work of Albert, whom 
he declared was ‘‘a likely boy and some diver.’’ 
In the afternoon we received calls from Colonial Secretary 
Fell and Sir Gilbert Carter, also invitations to the party to 
attend an ‘‘at home’’ at Government House, where His Ex- 
cellency Governor Probyn and Lady Probyn were to receive 
us. This was the beginning of a series of invitations that 
poured in during our entire stay and gave us opportunity to 
become acquainted with the justly famed hospitality of Bar- 
bados. 
In the evening a reporter for the ‘‘Standard’’ called for an 
interview. He was an intelligent colored man, and I was much 
