He told Paid he had sold many of them to the tourists and collectors in Barbadoes receiving from fifty cents to a dollar and a half apiece.

He also said that where one of those shells was found there was generally many in the vicinity, and advised Paul not to move the sloop that night, but to descend again the next day.
When the sun was sufficiently high the next morning, Paul again donned the armor and resumed his search for the voluta.

Not thirty yards from where he had discovered the first one, he found a basin in the rocks filled with sand.

From around this basin he took out two hundred and forty specimens of the desired shell.

Afterwards it was ascertained that no greater find of this species had ever been made.