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Title: 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
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, Charles Cleveland, 1858-1927
Subjects: Barbados-Antigua Expedition, (1918) Natural history Natural history
Publisher: Iowa City, The University
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian

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1. Waterfront of Christianstead. St. Croix, (see page 36) (Photograph by Wehman)
2. Waterfront of Basse Terre, St. Kitts (See page 37)
3. Scene in Botanical Gardens, Dominica (See page 42)


PLATE VIII
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BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 37

Coming back, we utilized the time afforded by a deflated tire
in sending one of tlie boys up a tree for green cocoanuts, the
first many of us had sampled. The milk, or rather water, is
cool sweetish, and perfectly safe and healthful to drink. Many
a time in past years I have blessed this refreshment when col-
lecting in tropical countries and hot and tired after a long
tramp. On my previous trip I had noted a curious illustra-
tion of how seemingly trivial things prove a serious annoyance
under changed conditions incident to a transfer of territory
from one nation to another. In taking over these islands, th
eUnited States government stationed marines at this port.
These men either did not know, or else often, forgot that the
Danish rule of the road is to turn to the left instead of to the
right, as with us. This was most exasperating to the native
autoists, and I remember that our chauffeur was most hearty in
his curses at the stupidity of the drivers of the U. S. auto
trucks lumbering across the island and doggedly turning to the right
in seeming defiance of the custom of centuries.

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