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persons on his hands the director was by no means happy in 
view of this possibility, particularly as the funds of the expedi- 
tion were insufficient to meet even two weeks, unexpected delay. 
Then, too, there were wild rumors of the activity of the sub- 
marines off the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, and pos- 
itive reports that one or more of the steamers had been tor- 
pedoed. As a matter of fact I felt much less concerned about 
the sinking of the ship with the expedition aboard than I did of 
its being lost before it took us from Antigua. 
Another difficulty was in securing accommodations for our 
party at St. John’s while waiting for the steamer and after 
our effects were placed on the sloop. This would not seem a 
very serious problem in a city of nearly ten thousand people 
anywhere else, but here it was really formidable. After the 
most strenuous pleading the best we could do at the one hotel, 
the ‘‘Esperanza,’’ was a reluctant consent to take four of us 
with the understanding that one would sleep on the sofa. Room 
was found for six others at a lodging house. For the rest, we 
were reduced to the humiliating necessity of quartering our- 
selves on our good friends living in St. John’s. Ultimately 
five of us accepted the hospitality of Government House, one 
was accommodated at the Deanery and one with Colonial Sec- 
retary Watson. These arrangements were understood to be for 
one night. 
The date given for the arrival of the ‘‘Parima’’ was Satur- 
day, the 20th of July. On the afternoon of the 18th the ‘‘Reso- 
lute’’ rounded Barclay Point and drew up along the sea-wall 
in front of our quarters, and the men of our party went to work 
with a will carrying the equipment and collections, which had 
all been packed on the preceding days, down to the sea-wall, 
where the men on the vessel took it in hand and stowed it away 
before night. We packed our trunks and other baggage, settled 
with the servants, and went to sleep for the last time in Officers’ 
Quarters at the dockyard where we had spent so many never- 
to-be-forgotten days. 
Karly on the morning of July 19th we took down our bedding, 
which was to go on the ‘‘Resolute,’’ and last of all put our 
trunks aboard. After an early breakfast Professor Thomas, 
Mr. Wehman and Willis Nutting went aboard and sailed away 
