ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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LAND LIZARDS OF THE GALAPAGOS 
On the sandy upland veldt of Seymour Island we caught these great 
iguanas, red and green, yellow and ivory white,—as eager to bite as their 
fellows of the surf were innocuous. 
being in a lifeboat a hundred feet from shore, 
and the other on top of the pebbly beach. This 
end I held as high as possible in the air, while 
the rest ponied buckets of water into a funnel. 
In an hour we had four tons of sweet water in 
the life-boat, and we towed 
this off to the yacht. There 
we found that, unable to 
anchor, we were consuming 
coal at a rate which would 
still further curtail our stay. 
So we had to give up our 
hard-earned plan of filling 
the tanks on the next 
morning. 
After landing “Johnson 
of London” who had given 
us so little in return for the 
enormous quantities of food 
and cocktails which he had 
consumed, we steamed back 
to Conway Bay for a last 
clean-up of the specimens 
which we needed. Then on 
to Panama which we reached 
on the last ton of coal in the 
bunkers and the last gallon 
of fresh water. 
Morton Wheeler of the Bus¬ 
sey Institute, Harvard, who 
had been with me at Kartabo 
in British Guiana, and 
whose philosophical grasp 
of evolution and life on the 
earth makes his presence on 
any expedition a tremendous 
asset and pleasure. We 
coaled again, covering the 
lower decks with great sacks 
and besides laid in quanti¬ 
ties of bottled water. 
When we again sighted 
the Galapagos it was de¬ 
cided to try another anchor¬ 
age near Indefatigable, far¬ 
ther to the east, in the 
shelter formed by the two 
Seymour Islands. During 
the first day ashore two at¬ 
tempts were made to pene¬ 
trate to the crater, but both 
were defeated by the terrific 
going. We realized that two 
or three camps must be 
established to accomplish this feat, and in the 
limited time which we had, it seemed infinitely 
wiser to concentrate on the vast mass of material 
ready to hand along the shore, rather than give up 
precious days to the mere performing of a stunt. 
A FEARLESS SEA-LION 
At Panama we added to 
our party Prof. William 
Like the birds in the background, this big male seal had never seen a 
human being, and could conceive no harm as coming from such a strange 
creature. 
