10 CRUISE OF THE BARRERA 



taken for delivery in Havana. This well freely 

 admits sea water through holes bored in the 

 schooner's sides and is open to the deck above 

 through a hatch covered by a removable grating. 

 This vivero proved of greatest use to us. Below, 

 aft, is an ample cabin with open passageway 

 forward (on either side of the well) to a forecastle 

 under the forward deck. Save for the low trunk 

 over the after cabin the entire flush deck is free of 

 interruption. A wide bulwark of about eighteen 

 inches height surrounds the vessel. Under the 

 long bowsprit is stretched a net, attainable by a 

 little acrobatic effort along the stays, which 

 furnished, to one or two at a time, an admirable 

 retreat for quiet siestas. The cooking arrange- 

 ments consisted of a series of charcoal braziers 

 enclosed in a supposedly fireproof casing, braced 

 alongvside the cabin trunk on the port side, the 

 adjoining portion of the cabin roof serving for a 

 kitchen table. Sleeping below is not favored in 

 the tropics so we provided cots which during the 

 day were stowed away forward under a tarpaulin. 

 At night these cots were ranged on deck in rows. 

 In the cabin below were kept all the personal 

 effects of the party, also an improvised waiting- 



