and did the Triotime gst frightened and squiml Th® "baking mills", besides 
quinine, had ©psoffl salts in it, and when the dentist got through he squirted 
a generous shot of mglne oil out of a large oil oan in the wiotim’s nouth. 
The dog they have for a msoot here was also put through or over the barber 
ohair and duEsped into the tank, fhe pollywogs outnmbered the shellbacks three 
to one, but were not organised and so did not gang up on the shellbacks as has 
happened on other sMps and at other times. A few pollywogs who tried to get 
tough got shoved aromd & bit, but there ms only on® casualty of the day. 
In some preliminary souffllng on® man’s head got banged up against an iron 
platoi painful, but te’ll survive said the dootori and he’ll get his oertifi- 
oate, too, Colored mess boys wont tiurough like overybody els© and Filipino 
oook and captain’s boy, too. royal barber cut out very generous ohmiks 
of iiair from evei^'' head, some wof^e tiian others, 
Toaorrow, April 4tli, we arrive off Sallims for saae survey work and 
to take oil at La Libert sdf lust one day only, but we’ll get a chance to 
got off a few letters and little els®. As in all levy outfits, we have jaovies 
each night. Saw "fhe or "Big City* last night and "Alias the Deaoon" 
tonight. Wa« funny, a gambler who unwlttii^ly does a lot of good in a ctrII 
country tom with acw^ he gets amy from tlM> wicked town banker, etc. 
And now after movies I am wiiKilng up this scrawl* 
Cot the first ©leveai drift bottles fixed up for oastlr^ overboard 
the day we leave Rsuador, one each noon position until the 24 are over. Hope 
I get some returns from thaa. 
What leven’t I covered tlmt you want to know about? Coming down 
airplane oertainly oramped ay style, as I Imve no collecting gear idmtover 
and I miss some of the books I’d like to have— "Birds of the Ooean” for one, 
Piokens said lie had oolleeted lend shells for Bartsoh before. 
