BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 155 
malaria mosquito, which we had been told to expect here and 
which we dreaded more than anything else, was presumably 
abroad. 
About nine o’clock Greenlaw, Ricker and I went in the 
launch to see if we could find the missing boat. After Barclay 
Point was passed we encountered rough water. The coast was 
rugged in the extreme with great black masses of rock looming 
up in the moonlight and the huge breakers dashing with a 
mighty roaring against the cliffs and gleaming white as snow 
against the blackness of the rocks. The scene was wild in the 
extreme, and the boat pitched and rolled like mad; but she was 
ably and most skillfully handled by Captain Greenlaw and we 
had no fears. We went out to the mouth of Falmouth Harbor 
but saw nothing of the sloop and turned back. Meantime Hen- 
derson and others had taken a lantern to Barclay Point to 
guide us in and we took this party aboard and returned to the 
dockyard at about ten Pp. M. with no news. 
Having no bedding, we composed ourselves as best we could 
on canvas hammock-chairs, tables, and in some cases the stone 
floors of the veranda. The mosquitoes, fortunately, were not 
troublesome, and most of us succeeded in getting to sleep. A 
little after midnight, someone cried ‘‘Here comes the sloop’’ 
and we saw the ‘‘Resolute’’ gliding like a ghost in the moon- 
light toward the sea wall. All hands turned out to welcome the 
men on the sloop, who had for several hours been beating 
against head winds to make English Harbor. The mattresses 
and hand luggage were at once taken into the quarters and we 
were soon asleep again. All’s well that ends well, but we cer- 
tainly had an anxious time. 
On the morning of June 20, we were all somewhat seedy on 
account of an almost sleepless night, but went to work early to 
unload the sloop and place our luggage in the quarters and the 
equipment in the large naval barracks assigned for the labora- 
tory. Albert proved a great help, as his unusual strength and 
intelligence made the hardest work seem easy, and we soon had 
things in their proper places. 
We were delighted with the display of marine life attached 
to the sea-wall that. surrounded us on three sides of the Dock- 
yard. There was the finest aggregation of tube-dwelling worms 
