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to the ship, reaching it at 10:30, dead-tired and fit 
for bed. Temperature at 8 P.M., air, 78; water 82, 
as usual. At 2 A.M. I •was almost frozen. Looked 
at the thermometer and found the temperature 72* Put on 
more clothes. 
Gill is somewhat of a disappointment. To me he 
seems groggy all the time. He lacks initiative and 
■would be absolutely helpless without constant super- 
vision. 
May 15th: 
Temperature 6 A.M., air, 78; water, 82. Bright, 
with scarcely a cloud over the mountains. I hope the 
land party will have a good day of it. Took care of 
what remained to be attended to from last night’s 
catch, then set out for the main shore in the hope of 
securing some exhibition material. This proved to 
be another grass flat bordering a mangrove swamp and 
contained little beyond what we had already taken. 
Only one huge Echinoid was found which seemed to be 
different from those taken yesterday. The mangrove: 
trees have almost all been killed by the hurricane 
of 1906. A rookery of cormorants were using these 
dead trees for nesting sites. We examined several 
of the nests and found that they contained two and 
three eggs, while some of them had half-grown young. 
There are also TfVhite Ibis here -^in fact, many of 
them, but these, as well as the Louisiana Herons and 
Reddish Egrets, seem to frequent' the inner edge of 
this Mangrove thicket, where it borders a rather 
extensive lake. I will have to pay this place 
another visit when my camera returns from the 
mountains, for it is now with the Pan de Asugar party. 
We stopped at the entrance to the lake at a 
landing stage and took a lot of fine Hydroyds from 
the palm pilings. 
In t he lead leading to the lake we found Mangrove 
oysters and Perna hanging in clustering pendants from 
the Mangrove roots. We secured several of them, as 
well as a lot of Hydroyds from similar positions. 
The grassy bottom of the interior lake looked like 
good dredging ground, so we made five hauls in 1 2 
fathoms, securing a fine lot of Bulla, Laevicardums, 
Venerids, etc. Also some nice worms . Three of 
these hauls were made in the larger of the two lakes 
and two in the smaller adjoining one. Secured water 
and bottom samples in both places. The clouds promis- 
ing r ain drove us to the ship, where we arrived just 
in time for luncheon. At 2 P.M, the rain began and 
continued more or less interi'uptedly until 4:30. These 
wet afternoons are a nuisance, because they practically 
stop Gill s work, since his colors, instead of drying, 
will run, making progress very slow. 
