BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 153 
On the morning of June 19 we had a rough sea and some of 
the party were again suffering from mal de mer. Nothing 
‘“‘takes the starch out’’ of a person. more quickly or more effect- 
ively than this curse of the sea. 
I here renewed an acquaintance whom I had met on the same 
boat the year before, Sir Frederick Maxwell, Chief Justice of 
the Leeward Islands. His conversation was that of a keen ob- 
server with a legal way of looking at things, and his com- 
ments on the political and social problems of the islands and 
on the great war were intensely interesting. He was most 
anxious to impress me with the importance of the United States 
putting her whole power into the war, and at once. ‘‘It will 
need five million men next summer,’’ he exclaimed, ‘‘Why do 
the things by halves!’’ As I write, two million Yanks have just 
done the job, thank God! 
We reached the roadstead off St. Johns at 10:30 a. m. and had 
the busiest sort of a day before us. Mr. Collens, Government 
Chemist of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, was our 
efficient forerunner here, and he gave of his time and knowledge 
without stint and without compensation. He was methodical 
and business-like and we found him on hand, when the Govern- 
ment launch came wheezing alongside, with everything ar-. 
ranged to the smallest detail for our residence at English Har- 
bor. The cooks and other servants had been engaged and in- 
stalled. Provisions had been purchased and sent out and the 
transfer of our party and luggage provided for. Everything 
went off without a hitch, a marvelous performance for a tropi- 
eal country where the ‘‘dulce far niente’’ spirit usually pre- 
vails. A sloop named ‘‘Resolute’’ came promptly alongside, 
while a Customs Officer, who had already boarded the ‘‘ Korona’’ 
from the Government launch, at once carried out the arrange- 
ments which had been made through his Excellency, Governor 
Best, to pass all of our equipment and luggage without inspec- 
tion and allow it to be transferred immediately to the ‘‘Reso- 
lute.’’ Professor Thomas, Dr. Job, Wehman, and Willis Nutting 
sailed away in the sloop for English Harbor. Mrs. Thomas, 
Greenlaw, Ricker, and Ensign went around in Henderson’s 
