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the trail under a mound of stones, together with a letter 
stating the location of the supplies. Thereupon, the party 
returned to the beach and reembarked arriving at the ship . 
about 1100. 
Much concern was expressed over the non-return to the 
ship of ra Watson and the First Lieutenant of the Houston, 
Lt. Comdr. Kelly, who had landed on an exploration tour short- 
ly after the first party. They were reputed to have wandered 
off the trail after separation from the remainder of their 
six-man party and to have been lost. As it turned out, they 
did lose the trail and had beat their way to the beach through 
brambles and underbrush, during which dash I a slipped headlong 
on the volcanic rocks and returned with several abrasions and 
contusions on his jaw, these furnishing the topic ior much 
good-natured chaff ing — veiled references being madfi to meetings 
with the ’’Baroness” of fabled fame, whose former habitat had 
