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a skiff* We got away from Palm Beach early on the morning of the 
twelfth and tied up to the dock in Miami at 4:15 the same afternoon* 
Less than forty-eight hours were spent here, just long enough to get 
our newjcollecting gear and the last of our provisions aboard* 
At Nassau (March 15 and l 6 ), we established our first 
stations - diving, shore-collecting and dredging. One day (March 19 ) 
was devoted to dredging and shore-collecting in the vicinity of 
Cockbumton, San Salvador, formerly known as Watling Island, one of the 
more prominent of the several claimants to the honor of being Columbus 1 
first land-fall in the New World. 
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The next stop was at QJ^rra Baja Road, Tortuga Island, March 21* 
Here the extensive reefs sheltering the anchorage formed a good collect- 
ing ground. During our two days 1 sojourn at Cape Haitien (March 22 and 
23 ) % a visit was paid to Christophe f s Citadel, a most impressive piece of 
masonry, and one well-worth a second visit. We had planned to stop in 
Samaria Bay, Dominican Republic »but adverse winds caused us to lose almost 
a day along the north coast of Hispaniola. As a result this visit had 
to be omitted in order to get Mr. Atwater Kent, Jr., a guest of Mr. 
Hartford 1 s during the first two weeks of the cruise, to San Juan by the 
T wen ty- s event h. 
In this fair harbor we got our first porpoise of the cruise 
and I believe the first record for Tursiops tursio for Puerto Rico* 
During the full seven days of our stay here collections were made at 
a number of places around the harbor, and outside in the vicinity of 
Port San Geronimo* A number of dredge hauls were also undertaken* 
We were entertained on two different evenings at the Governor 1 s Palace, 
the second occasion being a state dinner, attended by some thirty guests. 
We were also much befriended by Mr* Charles R* Hartzell, a prominent at- 
torney, and kinsman of Du Bose Heyward, and Dr. Pedro del Valle, a well- 
known dentist of San Juan and a great nature lover. He is a graduate of 
the University of Michigan. As a pastime he has opened to the public 
as beautiful- a patch of M marine gardens 11 as I have seen anywhere. At 
these gardens at Boca de Cangrejos which he owns, we went both diving and 
f i sh-spearing . 
St* Thomas is the type locality for a number of the West 
Indian Crustacea described by Wm. Simpson, which mostly if not all had 
been collected by one Riise, after whom many animals have been named. 
Mr* Maurice Petit, a relative of Riise* s, with whom I became acquainted, 
well remembers as a boy going collecting with him. Petit actively has 
kept up his interest in natural history* Not only is he the Director 
of the local Botanical Garden maintained here by our Government but he 
has a comprehensive private collection of shells for the island identi- 
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