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with practically all of our belongings except a few satchels. As 
the sloop glided out of sight around Point Barclay those who 
remained could not help remembering the anxious nights when 
we waited in vain for her appearance on the occasion of our first 
arrival at the Dockyard. 
She had not been gone a half hour when I received a cable- 
gram from Mr. Lawrence, agent of the Quebec Co., informing 
me that the ‘‘Parima’’ would not be wm until Monday the 22d. 
This was a pretty kettle of fish! We had managed to arrange 
for the accommodation of our party at St. John’s for one mght 
only. Our effects had been shipped off; the servants had been 
paid; the provisions had all been used, the last meal having 
been skillfully compounded of ‘“‘leavin’s.’’ We telephoned to 
our much harassed friends at St. John’s and to the hotel and 
rooming house. They all showed remarkable fortitude and 
stood up manfully under the unexpected blow. Governor Best 
rose to the sublime heights of hospitality when he said ‘‘It is 
our good fortune that you are delayed and can pass two extra 
days with us.’’ Others did the same and we realized that the 
far famed West Indian hospitality was equal to any test, and 
contemplated it with awe and something akin to reverence. 
At 9 o’clock A. M. the launch left for St. John’s with Green- 
law, Mrs. Thomas, Miss Sykes, Miss Van Wagenen, Dr. Fisher, 
Mr. Ricker, and Mr. Ensign. The servants lined up on the sea- 
wall and waved hats, bandannas, and aprons in a hearty fare- 
_well, as the ‘‘Kolis Jr.’’ glided around Point Barclay and 
out to sea. Mr. and Mrs. Stoner, Dr. and Mrs. Job, and Miss 
Mullin had already slipped away in an automobile. 
My wife, son Carl, and I were thus left alone to look after 
the last things that someone always has to attend to. The ser- 
vants had dealt faithfully with us and it was fitting that they 
should be tipped as they had already been by most of the party, 
and we gave them something as a reward for their fidelity. 
Some of them had already given the ladies of our party pres- 
ents of articles made of seeds greatly resembling the bead-work 
of our northern Indians. Such of our clothing as it seemed 
unnecessary to take home was gratefully received by the ser- 
vants. 
