ii6 CRUISE OF THE BARRERA 



At two o'clock we anchored in the harbor of 

 Dimas, which, Hke all the *' harbors" along this 

 portion of the coast, is no harbor at all. A dredg- 

 ing party immediately started out in the launch. 

 Lesmes gathered his fish-traps and put forth in 

 the auxiliary to set them. Torre, Simpson, and 

 Rodriguez proceeded ashore to look for Cerion 

 and to induce the natives to capture for us a speci- 

 men or two of the little crow (Corvus minor Gundl) 

 that lives here within a remarkably restricted 

 range. 



A final assault upon a stretch of shore line pre- 

 senting an elevated bank — the first so far seen 

 — netted us some snakes and lizards, a few crus- 

 taceans, jelly-fish, anemones, and some mollusks. 

 There were no Cerions and our little crow eluded 

 capture. 



Up to the present we were not wholly satisfied 

 with our marine collecting. The uniformity of the 

 soft bottom and the generally swampy character of 

 the shore had not given us the variety of conditions 

 we hoped to meet. Assurances of our crew that 

 more favorable conditions would be encountered 

 farther west made us impatient to get on. 



Some wandering chubascos threatened us in the 



