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set here for reference* the other set to go to 
the T7. S » Nat. Museum for naming and classifica- 
tion. I am very willing to do all I can to help 
him, for this is also what we are after. Returned 
to the Express Company at 2 P.M. and cabled the 
express agent ofKey West to send all the things 
consigned to Havana. We next went on a still 
hunt to the Customs House and found that my ship- 
ment had arrived and that I will „e able to get it 
manana. Hendersonand Clapp arrived at 6 s 15 on 
the steamer "Mascotte" and we got their baggage 
off on the letter of exemption without opening 
anything. All took supper at the Plaza and had 
a general good time. Turned in rather late. 
May 6th*- 
Up early and off on the usual hunt from A to 
Z, finally succeeding in realizing all our baggage 
just as the Custom house was closing, so off it 
went to the Thomas Barara, our schooner to be. We 
had rented a launch earlier in the day and paid a 
visit to this schooner, which is 65 feet long and has 
20 ft. beam. Then we ordered 290 gallons of gasolene 
at 34 cents each, for the two launches and made other 
purchases of 
We were allused up when night came and thoroughly 
disgusted with the "manana" spirit of everybody in 
town and the many stumbling blocks placed in our way. 
Tomorrow we hope to get the Key West baggage, idiich 
we find has come over on the Miami. ' 
May 7th* 
Met De la Torre at 8*30 at the Hotel and all 
hands proceeded to have a picture taken of the vessel 
and its staff, etc., which took up almost all the fore- 
noon. We did, however, succeed in realizing the ex- 
press baggage about 1 P.M., after no end of 
about, the express agent having positively assured me 
that we could under no circumstances hope to get it 
before ten days. We purchased quite a lot of material, 
and all things sire to be at the wharf by 9 manana. I 
wonder if they will. We all feel that if we do not get 
away soon we will all be played out. During dinner we 
had a call from some photographer who wanted to take some 
flashlights of the Commission, so at 9 P.M. he had his 
wish fulfilled, and tomorrow's issue of El Mundo is to 
present the group to the public* Good luck! We took 
a stroll about town, admiring the beautiful points of the 
city in the glorious moonlight. 
