
BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 239 
were no restrictions regarding food consumption, no tax on in- 
comes so far as I could learn, and I believe there had been no 
conscription of men. Many of the whites had volunteered, how- 
ever, and here, as elsewhere in the British colonies, the terrible 
price had been paid in bloodshed and in death. Dean Shepherd of 
the Anglican Cathedral and his wife had lost two sons, both in 
the aviation service, and she has since lost a brother. Here, as 
elsewhere in the islands, there has been extensive migration 
of the blacks to the United States. I was told by a colored 
clergyman that about thirty per cent of the Antiguans were 
now in America and that many of them were doing well and 
sending money back home. I could not help thinking that most 
of these people would do equally well in Antigua if they worked 
as hard as they have to in order to succeed in the United States. 
Kew of them can be induced to put in more than four days a 
week and they do not average that much. Six days’ work a 
week would add fifty per cent to their income and make the dif- 
ference between extreme poverty and reasonable comfort. It 
must be remembered, however, that steady work in the tropical 
heat of Antigua is more of a tax on endurance than it would 
be in our climate. 
Of course our advent created considerable excitement, par- 
ticularly among the negroes. They were, however, more univer- 
sally friendly than the Barbadians and none of our party met 
with any evident hostility. To be sure many of them were un- 
able to believe that our real object was the collecting and study 
of marine animals. The story was circulated that we had been 
sent out by the United States government to report on the ad- 
visability of securing English Harbor for the use of our navy. 
This idea grew luxuriantly until it was finally reported that we 
had purchased the whole island of Antigua as well as several 
others of the Lesser Antilles. Mr. Henderson’s launch excited 
a‘good deal of interest and was regarded as something almost 
Supernatural and a real marvel of speed. The engine being a 
smooth-running one, there was almost none of the ordinary 
noise of a gasolene motor, and this added greatly to the mystery 
of its movements in the eyes of the natives. 
The writer was asked to address several meetings of various 
sorts and found the experience most interesting. The first 
