it hold its place. We were happy in our ignorance 
of the signs in the sky and went below not to ae 
to deck for nearly two days. 
Toward midnight the norther broke and we awoke 
by the rolling of the ship and the roar without, to 
realize that the stories that 300 years before played 
such pranks with the carvels of the first explorers 
had not forgotten their traditions, but we had a better 
boat than these early mariners who were ten days in 
reaching Yucatan while inside of 40 hours we were 
anchored at Progresso though still dancing unpleasantly 
in the pale yellow green sea. There was but little 
rain, the threatening gray clouds seeming to be charged 
with a gale that had no intervals nor end, and we passed 
two nights and a day outside of Progresso before a land- 
ing could be effected. 
