Water her© fro® a wall is good in the dry season but should 
be boiled during' Hie rains. Food was excellent with 
relished variety, the only 
and green 
fruit, if 
can be called fruit, that 1 had after leaving dioh&oha. 
From May 8 to 10 I lived in Puerto Estrella in the house of 
I filially left the Cuajira on May 10, crossing on the 40 foot 
power schooner El Ccmpenaahor with a miscellaneous and odoriferous 
cargo of live sheep, goats, c. dickens and other experts to Aruba. En- 
routc at sundown on that day X was interested to see the rocky islets 
rookeries of hundreds of sea birds - brown booM.es, blue-faced boobies 
end sooty and noddy terns - that nest here. Snail schooners bring 
eggers here from Aruba, Venezuela and ColoaMa to gather eggs, and 
small fishing vessels use their lee as a week-end rondevous. bn this 
Saturday evening I noted in passing a easy) of several mm on shore, 
obviously eggers, and six schooners rode in the lee with lines ashore. 
V ' . 
On the western side of the larger (southern) islet there is a Say with 
quiet water pOO to 500 feet long completely in the lee of the trades. 
