214 CRUISE OF THE BARRERA 



in temperature, below which moisture in the air 

 gives a cold impression and above which it gives 

 a hot impression, is somewhere near 8o°-82°. In 

 our northern homes we think nothing of a drop of 

 twenty or twenty-five degrees in half as many 

 hours, or indeed in as many minutes, and a very 

 little addition of clothes suffices for bodily comfort. 



In the late afternoon we reached Guadiana Bay 

 and anchored at 6 o'clock about a mile from La Fe. 



As we proposed leaving the schooner here to 

 rejoin her at Esperanza, Rodriguez was detailed 

 to go ashore and arrange for a conveyance to take 

 us the next day to Mendoza. A general scramble 

 below to find suit- cases and appropriate clothes 

 continued up to bed-time. 



What a delight it was to rest upon even keel 

 in the still waters of Guadiana Bay! To really 

 appreciate and enjoy the good things of life 

 one must have experience of the bad. 



