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the original Danish element of St. Croix, and still owners of the greater 
part of tne island, as well as the .American officials representing the 
Interior Department, under whose jurisdiction the Virgin Islands fall. 
With Kai Essman also, we collected at several places in the 
Salt River lagoon obtaining among other things specimens of oysters much 
desired by the Bureau of Fisheries, to. Taylor spoke of his interest in 
having archaeological investigations undertaken on St. Croix. There are 
a number of large shell mounds on the island, and one which I personally 
saw, hard by Salt River, was filled with potsherds. Kai. Essman told me 
that both a Danish scientist and later representatives of the Museum of 
the American Indian had worked here for a time and had secured some 
beautiful unbroken pots. They made only limited excavations and by no 
means exhausted the place. Essman said that a lot of fine material was 
yet to be had in return for a little work. 
We repaid our social obligations by giving a party aboard the 
ship the night before we left St. Croix (April 10th), going out as we had 
come in, at night. 
Saba (April 11-12) is an island of which match has been written, 
but most of it plain hearsay. A precipitous volcanic peak, it does not 
have enough arable land to support its present population, withthe re- 
sult that a great deal of its food must be imported. The thrifty in- 
habitants are chiefly women, as the men must of necessity go elsewhere to 
earn their livelihood for the most part, as mariners. The women, in 
their turn, add to the family earnings by making up fine linens and drawn 
work. ?r4.Stuart Danforth of the College of Agriculture of Puerto Rico re- 
cently spent several weeks on the island making collections of things 
terrestrial. According to local reports he found a rare heath(?) hen 
of which he secured several specimens. Half a day, April 12, was the 
duration of our stay at St. Eustatia. Here We made up a seining party 
and secured several, fish and crustaceans* 
Another brief halt was made at Roseau Roads, Dominica, April l4« 
Five hours were lost ashore because a hired car ran out of gas. A very 
interesting local museum, the Victoria Museuja, is maintained here with a 
small but worthwhile collection of Crustacea. Through Miss Eleanor 
Blanchard, the curator in charge (also the local librarian) I was ap- 
prised of the fact that a species of the very rare, and perhaps extinct, 
fl diablotin M is the treasured, possession of a local resident, also that 
Stephen Haweis lived here at Mount Joy* It occurs to me that Haweis 
might be persuaded in interesting himself in securing this species for 
the National Museum, I did not personally get to see him due to our 
misadventure with the auto* At the time it ran out of gas we were ten 
miles from Roseau and help. To our great good fortune a supply truck 
(auto) which serves the far side of the island at Grand Bay where we then 
were, happened by on one of its two-a-week runs, doubly fortunate for in 
its varied load - - flour to corrugated iron - - was included a five- 
gallon tin offgas”. For this we gladly paid the” two prices 1 * asked and 
