CHAPTER XII 



Los Arroyos to Punta Colorado 



Thursday, May 21st. Before starting again on 

 our westward journey another landing had to be 

 made for fresh provisions ordered the day before. 

 At 9 o'clock we were under way with all sup- 

 plemental sail set. The weather outlook was 

 anything but encouraging. Great banks of storm- 

 clouds, forming over the sierras, gave forebodings 

 of trouble, and puffy shifting winds warned us to 

 be alert. The chubascos were getting more fre- 

 quent and angry, while the steady northeast 

 trades were being more and more interrupted by 

 fickle winds. We were now very desirous of 

 getting into the waters about the western extrem- 

 ity of Cuba, for there we believed would be en- 

 countered more varied conditions of bottom for 

 the dredge. The extension of land from Guadi- 

 ana Bay to Cape San Antonio we knew to be 

 geologically different and we anticipated there 



better collecting conditions. Punta Colorado, 



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