After the races the Queen's Park Hotel was jammed for the rest of the day and evening. Patrons of the bar were lined up six deep. It was as difficult to get a table on the veranda, or even inside, as it is to get one on New Year's eve in New York. All the rest of Trinidad goes to sleep with the chickens except the Queen's Park Hotel, and that also has an early bedtime on ordinary occasions, but the presence of American officers and the races combined made it break the Ben Franklin rule of early to bed. And so the visit to Trinidad wore away. The fleet was really glad to leave. Most of the visitors growled and said they'd be glad never to return, but all the same every one who has once been here in the winter and experienced the delightful climate and picturesque surroundings will be glad to see it once again. The motto of the fleet now is: "Heave away for Rio." Neptune will board us on the way. CHAPTER III TRINIDAD TO RIO JANEIRO How the Battleship Fleet Greeted the New Year at Sea--Good Will Fore and Aft--Beautiful Spectacle of a Searchlight Drill With Ninety-six Lights--Crews on the Whole Glad to Get Away from Port of Spain Despite Official Cordiality--The Culgoa and the Catamaran--Missouri's Man Overboard--The Sleepy Brigantine. _On Board U.S.S. Louisiana, U.S. Battle Fleet_, RIO JANEIRO, January, 14. It is not exceeding the limits of strict accuracy to assert that there was not a man on Admiral Evans's fleet who was not glad to leave Trinidad. The statement must not be taken as reflecting in the least upon the officials of the place. No greetings to a fleet of foreign warships could have been more cordial and sincere than those given by Governor-General Jackson and his assistants. There was no reserve about it. It was genuine and from the heart. But the Trinidad people did not wake up. Half a dozen merchants flew American flags above their shops, perhaps fifty persons all told came out to visit the ships, the clubs were thrown open to officers and now and then some of the residents might drive or stroll down to the waterfront to take a look at the fleet.