86 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
These little gleaming messengers increased in num- 
ber, and the darkness was crossed and re-crossed by 
fiery trails of light; and still the busy fingers of my 
assailants thrust them in more and more. At last it 
became quite light, and by an inadvertent movement 
I exposed myself. With a shout, they proclaimed the 
success of their de- 
vice, and demanded 
I should let them 
in. But this I would 
not do, and they 
later subsided, after 
howling themselves 
hoarse. Before the 
termination of the 
entertainment I had 
fallen asleep, and did 
not awake until early 
the next morning. 
Just beforethe river, 
which ran near my 
hut, trickles through 
yy the huge rocks to the 
Parte J xre. . ocean, it leaves sev- 
eral small pools, hol- 
lowed from the solid rock by the waves. The sun 
rises so quickly in that latitude, coming up hot and 
glaring from the waves, that a bath, to be refresh- 
ing, must be taken at dawn. The morning was cool 
and cloudy; a few birds were chirping as I stepped 
from my doorway. I drew back suddenly, saluted 
by a blast from what I thought must be an asthmatic 
fish-horn. Peering cautiously out, I ascertained, by 
