LA MULATA TO BAH I A HONDA 293 



For the first time we received here the Patron's 

 positive prohibition against jumping overboard. 

 We were anchored in some forty feet, and the 

 murky water of the bay prevented sight of the bot- 

 tom. We made up for the restriction by landing on 

 a sandy spit near by where we hunted Cerion and 

 swam to our heart's content, Luis and Mulatica 

 joining us in the sport. Lesmes and the pilot, 

 who seemed determined to attach himself to the 

 Barrera, w^ent fishing in deep water, returning 

 about dark with an interesting catch, claimed to 

 have been made in a thousand-feet depth. We 

 doubted not the word of Lesmes but the correctness 

 of his soundings. 



