The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17972821510)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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THE RUINS OF TULOOM, YUCATAN 195 bined to make the moment ripe for the attempt. A small steamboat, the "Corozal," of about forty tons, was chartered in Belize with a crew of ten, and these with the expedition staff and servants made a total of seventeen on board. The "Corozal," in palmier days, several tion consisted of the writer; Mr. A. W. Carpenter, the photographer; Dr. G. Underbill, the physician; and two col- laborators. Dr. T. Gann, Chief Medical Officer of British Honduras, and Mr. S. K. Lothrop, of Harvard University. The expedition sailed from Belize on March 19 and two days later anchored
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The breakers run high at Tuloom. The beacli slopes gently so that our dory was brought within a hundred feet of the land. Here the boys took the baggage of the expedition on their shoulders and waded ashore decades earlier, had been a tugboat in the United States. Having outlived her usefulness, or perhaps better her "safefulness," in this country—it was understood she had been condemned here—she had been sent to Belize for use in the coastwise shipping trade. Her pilot assured the writer that, "Thirty years ago when she had a gold h'eagle h'up for'ards she were a good boat!" The staff of the expedi- inside the reef off Tuloom. The trip had been uneventful except for the com- plete and scientific demonstration that the "Corozal" could not under any cir- cumstances do the nine knots an hour her owner generously and optimisti- cally accredited her. The truth was that by crowding her boilers beyond a reasonable margin of safety and with the current in her favor, she managed to limp along at six.