138 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
saw a good exhibition of skill in the ancient sport of archery. 
Sir Gilbert and the Governor were the main contestants, and 
although the former is over seventy years old, he seemed to 
hold the championship. 
We were also delightfully entertained at the home of Sir 
Francis and Lady Watts. Sir Francis was absent on official busi- 
ness in the Bahama Islands at the time, but Lady Watts was most 
friendly and introduced us to many prominent people at her 
home and furthered our interests in various ways. Mr. Sam- 
uel Manning and Mrs. Manning invited our whole party to visit 
their estate and inspect the coral cave which had recently been 
discovered on their land. Their residence is one of the most 
sumptuous that we found and contained a surprising number 
of objects of interest to connoisseurs of art. This conservatory 
and aviary were among the best that I have seen anywhere. 
A coral cave had been discovered just before my visit of the 
preceding summer, at which time I had the pleasure of in- 
specting it. While blasting rock in the process of levelling a 
portion of his ground, Mr. Manning uncovered a subterranean 
cavern which had been formed evidently by the action of an 
underground stream cutting through the coral reef that had 
deen elevated, along with practically the whole Barbados, 
until now it is considerably above the level of Bridgetown. Mr. 
Manning had already taken out some hundreds of tons, I should 
judge, of almost pure coral, and intends to turn it into lime for 
commercial purposes. As coral is nearly all limestone, this 
has proved of considerable value. The cave has been enlarged 
by the removal of this coral and presents a most novel and 
beautiful spectacle. 
We entered by a series of steps cut in the coral rock and lead- 
ing to the floor of the cavern, which is approximately 25 feet 
high, 30 feet wide, and 100 feet long. The walls and ceiling are 
formed entirely by exquisite white coral heads and branches, the 
latter looking much like trees after one of our northern sleet 
and snow storms. The tracery of these beautiful branches re- 
vealed by the light let in from above and aided by electric lights 
in the eave itself was wonderfully beautiful and seemed like the 
realization of an Arabian Nights Dream. Nothing that we saw 
