BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 157 
series of six suites of large rooms, each pair opening into one 
another and the front rooms having a door and window opening 
upon the veranda. The back rooms opened correspondingly onto 
the back porch, as we called it. 
Broad stone steps led up to the veranda at the center of 
each side of the building and a corridor crossed between these 
opposite stairs. Heavy storm shutters and blinds were in all 
the windows and the upper parts of the doors, allowing the free 
passage of the sea breeze which almost constantly blew in from 
the ocean, making it delightfully cool at all times. Indeed this 
trade-wind was often too strong for comfort, blowing our 
clothes off the hooks inside the rooms and papers off the tables. 
This constant wind ‘‘got on our nerves’’ at times, and we could 
well have dispensed with a considerable part of it. 
The laboratory was in a building 100 feet square, used in 
olden times as quarters for the jackies of the British navy. The 
laboratory facilities here were not so convenient as at Pelican 
Island, as they were not quite so near the water in the first 
place, and were upstairs, which necessitated carrying up of all 
the sea-water that we used. The stairway, moreover, was steep 
and narrow. In spite of these drawbacks, the space was ample 
for our needs, and plenty of light and a superabundancee of fresh 
air were available. It is true the roof leaked in spots, but 
at infrequent intervals, and we had little that could be seriously 
injured by water anyway. Of course we could not do much in 
the way of keeping aquaria going under these conditions, but 
this was of little moment as we had one of the most wonderful 
natural aquaria just in front of us. 
The great cisterns in both of these buildings furnished an 
ample supply of fresh water for all purposes. This, while not 
so good as that at Pelican Island, was fairly satisfactory; al- 
though not very palatable, especially as the ice supply was in- 
constant and the temperature far higher than we fancied. We 
were inclined to attribute the slight attacks of bowel trouble 
from which most of us suffered from time to time to this source; 
although it is quite as likely that it had other causes such as 
long hours of work collecting under the hot sun, which made us 
feverish at times and resulted in a too free use of the water. 
On the whole, our health was good here, none of us being under 
