I made a lot of color notes on the simpler 
invertebrates, many of which are noted in the back 
of this journal, in connection with this station. 
The land party found nothing at all, but they made 
several hauls in shallow water (8 to 12 feet -2 , n 
fathoms - ) of cayo arenas. These hauls yielded v, 
quite a lot of invertebrates, which I preserved. y 
They are listed under tags #19 - 23 and 25. In the 
evening the Captain of the *ort of Havana arrived 
in his yacht, but we gave him so little attention 
that he steamed back to Havana, thank goodness! 
There is altogether too much time lost entertaining 
and palavering* which seems to be De la Torre* s 
chief aim. 
At 3 P.M. we left our anchorage and made sail 
for Santa Lucia. We came to anchor after dark, 
and after a very light supper gave the submarine 
light a trial. We caught a lot of plankton with 
a butterfly net (Knowles having forgotten to pack 
my plankton net - Hang him. ) . We also caught 
a number of Hemieamphs and other small fish. We 
turned in about 10 P.M., with the determination 
to get up at daylight and search the reefs. 
May 1st: 
We had breakfast and were off by 6 A.M. Paid 
a call to Cayo Hutea at the light house in the 
hope that vie would find a reef at this place. 
There is a small Key a little east of this one 
off the lighthouse. The water between the two 
I suppose in no place is over two fathoms. The 
bottom is largely composed of calcareous agal detritus 
plus some animal remains overgrown, for the greater 
1 part, with ibhalassa testudinaria, a long leaf plant 
resembling tallisnaria* On this bottom we found a 
number of species of corals. and Actinious. Also some 
sponges and crustaceans. On the beach of the light- 
house were a lot of spirit crabs, some of which and 
a land crab, were coppered by Simpson and Clapp. We 
next went to the outer reef of the little island 
northeast of the light, and here worked in water 
of depth varying from 3 to 5 feet, securing a lot 
of corals, sponges, Plexaures Gorgonians, Crustaceans 
and a number of small fish. I inverted a pint 
bottle of copper sulphate into a hole in a coral 
head and secured a few fish rendered groggy in this 
manner. The coral was covered by four feet of water. 
The coral heads here are scattered, chiefly 
Meandrina. 
