. Barbados-Antigua expedition; narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from theUniversity of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College . imilar to a general view of Pompeii, a city muchsmaller, by the way, than St. Pierre. I noticed that a goodmany new houses had been erected in the vicinity since I passedby before, and they say that a new city has arisen which intime will rival its ill-starred predecessor. A short distance beyond St. Pierre a big school of porpoisesgave us an exhibition of fancy swimming, hurdling and divingas they followed the
. Barbados-Antigua expedition; narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from theUniversity of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College . imilar to a general view of Pompeii, a city muchsmaller, by the way, than St. Pierre. I noticed that a goodmany new houses had been erected in the vicinity since I passedby before, and they say that a new city has arisen which intime will rival its ill-starred predecessor. A short distance beyond St. Pierre a big school of porpoisesgave us an exhibition of fancy swimming, hurdling and divingas they followed the ship and played alongside for half an houror so. One never tires of watching their aquatic secured a movie of them, of which we hope much. That evening at dinner the Iowa crowd almost caused a panicon board the Guiana in an attempt to show its appreciationof the courtesy of Captain Spinney in steaming in close to giveus a better view of St. Pierre. Of course University peopleknow of no better way of showing appreciation than by givingthe yell. So when we assembled for dinner, we waited untilthe Captain, who usually came down somewhat late, entered and PLATE IX. Two scenes in market at Pointe a Pitre. Guadeloupe (See page 40) (Photographs by Willis Nutting) PLATE X
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