78 CRUISE OF THE BARRERA 



of the inn closed and barred his doors for the night 

 could we retire to the "guest room." Soon there 

 were no sounds to disturb our sleep except the 

 scurrying of innumerable rats. 



While the shore party was on its way to Azucar, 

 those remaining on board the schooner put in a 

 busy day. At 5.30 a.m., Bartsch, Rodriguez, and 

 the Patron, with Greenlaw, again visited the reef 

 and some sandspits off the north end of Cayo 

 Hutia. They ran a line of dredgings between the 

 coral patches of the reef, taking bottom samples 

 but finding little life. In the early afternoon a 

 shower of three inches fairly deluged the earth. 

 Later, Bartsch, Gill, and Greenlaw, made another 

 series of dredgings along the mainland shore taking 

 some new starfish and a quantity of small material. 

 In the evening the opportunity offered by a perfect 

 calm was taken to try out the submarine light on 

 the reef. A position was taken in ten feet of water 

 immediately over a large mass of Acropora palmata. 

 The results were excellent in a fine lot of small 

 Crustacea, worms, and plankton. A second station 

 occupied over a grassy patch also yielded good 

 returns. 



