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by mosquitoes that drove even Luis and Mulatica 

 to cover. Without the nets purchased at Bahia 

 Honda we should have fared ill indeed. 



Tuesday, June gth. In solemn conclave we had 

 reluctantly decided that this must be our last day 

 of collecting. Already we had exceeded the time 

 of our charter, and most of us, our periods of leave 

 from home. By a division of labor and with 

 forced energies we proposed to "do" Cabanas 

 harbor and vicinity before nightfall. Clapp, 

 Rodriguez, Lesmes, and Pablo mobilized for a raid 

 upon a peninsula in the harbor known as the old 

 "Potrero Constante," their chief object, land- 

 shells, with the pretty yellow Liguus in view as a 

 special prize. Bartsch, Greenlaw, and an assistant 

 set forth to dredge in the harbor entrance. They 

 made two fairly successful hauls in twenty-five 

 fathoms and seven in eight fathoms, taking a 

 quantity of small bivalves as the feature of their 

 catch. When the shore party returned, a generally 

 battered appearance fully confirmed their story 

 of mosquitoes and thorny scrub. They had 

 secured but a half-dozen dead specimens of the 

 coveted Liguus. 



The next excursion, including all the collectors, 



