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onial Secretary, and other officials, all in evening clothes. The 
performance consisted of a little farce called ‘‘The Anarchist’’ 
and then an allegorical sketch ‘‘The Hours’’ given by a group 
of very pretty girls representing Father Time, the Seasons, and 
the Hours. The costumes were extremely well designed and the 
performance one of the best amateur affairs that we had seen. 
' Between the acts little girls in costumes representing different 
nationalities sold ices and fancy articles. We wanted to take 
some of these pretty little maidens with us as specimens, 
but the plan fell through. Red Cross teas were given every 
Friday at the Hotel Esperanza, and shortly before we left we 
were invited to an afternoon reception at Government House 
given for the benefit of the Red Cross fund, the Governor sug- 
gesting in his invitation that it would be a very good oppor- 
tunity for our Antiguan friends to say goodbye and wish us a 
successful voyage. There was tennis as usual; and tea and 
other refreshments, both liquid and solid, were served in a pa- 
vilion on the grounds. It was quite evident that prohibition 
was not in foree here; but it must be confessed that at no time 
did our Antiguan friends exhibit anything but an entirely tem- 
perate use of strong drink, although total abstinence was not 
the custom. 
So far as we discovered there were no Americans in the island 
at the time of our visit. Neither was the United States repre- 
sented by a Consul or even a Consular Agent. An occasional 
Canadian is encountered, and the Colonial Bank of London 
has a branch in St. John’s which attended to money matters 
for our expedition. 
Mr. Forrest, a local merchant, is much interested in geology 
and zoology and has gathered together quite a valuable collec- 
tion representing the fauna of the island, which he is keeping 
in good shape and much of which is identified. We heard of 
several collections of shelis, one of which we examined with in- 
terest. It is owned by Mrs. Branch and is a result of many 
years of collecting by her husband who died a number 
of years ago, and seems to be a fairly complete assemblage of 
West Indian mollusea from the littoral zone and shallow water. 
This collection is for sale and would repay investigation by any- 
one interested in securing a fairly representative series from 
