April 23 continued 
other guides to help carry our soar. Actually we had brought ©long ail the efulpaeat 
we could and for the two days of cav® visiting aid left com of it in Swot's office, 
Xvsu provided us with & Ferguson tractor and two-wheeled iatss wage® on which iso had 
placed benches for us to sit on* After refreshens m 
"Qxmn Boer ' w© started 
off, With so springs it m a pretty rough* MpieiiUy considering that the Island is 
underlaid with coral rock with frequent outcroppings of the rocks* As w> 
the crossing of the rocky sections of road wm hard m the posterior. About a stile 
trass the cave wo ease to the awl of the road and tec to walk* The path Iasi through 
thorny scrub brush* very dry. A® we approached the Derby Cave it appeared m m oasis 
la the dry surrounding#, There ware pslss trees and brush vegetation hut 
ia the ground 72 £*efc imp at its 
e 
was a sink. 
end had an overhanging rock ledge* fro® which water dripped* hut very slowly — m 
aim that it was forming stalactites and stai&pdtei in severe l places. He climbed 
dewa lat# the hole and collected ' there f or several house* bb well as eating our lunch. 
My best Insect collecting wee in rotten log# and in & eieoeblo rotting papaya trunk* 
Itk the latter war© fly larvae* beetle larvae and several kinds of adult beetles. We 
recovered two scorpions free, the rotten log© 
*. 
Sodas at the Steen !>o©x* were welcase on our return to Codrlngtoa. ifa took the 
sleep hack over the lageea end were aboard by 179®, 
/ 
2 worked that night till 010© getting ay me nits culture# checked. 
ZSm 
We left the Caribee at 0700 end arrived *t Codriagton* Barbuda, la the emm 
m&mmt m the previous day at 0745, We picked up the $ser which we had left at the 
