BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 247 
Mr. Lake, the caretaker, had spent much time in helping us 
to settle our various accounts with the servants and Mr. Potter, 
and had declined to charge anything for his services. A little 
token of appreciation in parting, however, it was entirely fitting 
that he should accept. Corporal James was on duty at the 
dockyard during our entire stay and had helped us with a 
hearty good will on several occasions; and the aged gate-keeper, 
Page, had been a faithful warden and always appreciated the 
joke when we gave him the password ‘‘Indianapolis.’’ 
The car came for us about noon, the servants waved their 
last farewell, the gate-keeper hobbled out and opened the pon- 
derous gate and stood waving his hand as we passed. I must 
confess to a feeling of reluctance in leaving this historic spot 
which had been our home for four weeks, and the simple and 
good-hearted people who had tried so hard and so successfully 
in the main to accommodate their services to the strange and 
often to them unheard-of customs of the people from Iowa, a 
place that was as unknown to them as English Harbor had 
been to us two years before. 
As our car speeded through the village of English Harbor 
the people stood in their doorways and waved us a hearty good- 
bye as did many of the other villages along the way. Arriving 
at St. John’s we found that the sloop had had a fair wind and 
had beaten us in and our party had already distributed itself 
according to arrangements. 
At Government House we were very comfortably situated: 
and the luxury of well appointed rooms, well drilled servants 
and a hospitality that was so genuine and tactful as to make 
us forget that we had in a way been thrust upon our generous 
host, Governor Best, was very grateful after the rather strenu- 
ous life at English Harbor. It was a relief, moreover, to escape 
from the perpetual high wind that had blown so incessantly at 
the Dockyard as to ‘‘get on our nerves’’ to quite appreciable 
extent. That afternon we attended a Red Cross reception given 
on the grounds of Government House, where we met many of 
the more prominent citizens of Antigua, with most of whom we 
had already become very pleasantly acquainted. As the Gover- 
