If Colonel Max Chassagne, chief of the 

 Haitian Army in northern Haiti, had not given us tem- 

 porary permission to explore for the Santa Maria exactly 

 when he did that Saturday afternoon before Easter, I 

 doubt if we would ever have found the ancient anchor, sym- 

 bol of Columbus's first visit to the Antilles. And if Captain 

 Weems, with unflagging enthusiasm, had not kept hot on 

 the trail of the ofiicials responsible for granting that per- 

 mission, I'm sure Ed would have given up in despair and 

 sailed on to our next objective, the Silver shoals. 



We had been in the harbor at Cap Haitien since 

 Wednesday. The day after our arrival we had moved Sea 

 Diver from her anchorage in the open road, where we had 

 bounced about considerably in the choppy waters, to the 

 small inner harbor close to the sea wall which flanked the 

 town. Here we were well sheltered from wind and sea by 

 the municipal dock to our north and a smaU cay just east 

 of us. 



Several seagoing sloops from Turks island, the native 



170 Sea Diver 



