JULY, 1906. CATALOGUE OF BERMUDA FISHES BEAN. 25 



fore and aft and not a dry spot on de'ck. 

 Anchor is holding. 



Gale increasing during the night with Manila cable, 100 

 fathoms, out ahead. 



Fish bite and keep coming on deck from hook and line. 

 Flying fish observed flying in long half circles throughout 

 the afternoon and evening about the steamer. 



12 midnight. Steamer dragging anchor for half a mile and then 

 gripped anchor again in some rock upon the level bottom, which 

 seems to be overgrown with sea flora. 

 It blows hard. 



Anchor watch, and all hands below for the night. 

 4 A. M. Oct. i3th, 1905. 



Steamer started to drag for a mile .over smooth pebble rock 

 bottom and held again. 



Anchor watch busy at the anchor' cable, preventing its 

 chafing off at the stem of the steamer; as ship is riding and 

 laboring in a southwest gale, with heavy S. W. sea running 

 choppy and short, in 28 fathoms of water. 



8 A. M. Wind S. S. W. strong, having somewhat moderated since 

 early morning. We hove up anchor, having had fish pots out 

 all night on the bottom, but no fish in them. 

 8 A. M. Started for the "Argus Bank" to S. W. from "Challenger 



Bank," steering by compass S. W. by S. X S. 

 9: 15 A. M. After running for 8^ miles by Patent log, sounded in 



30 fathoms on "Argus Bank." 



9:30 A. M. Course S. W., sounded in 30 fathoms with two baited 

 hooks on leadline, hauled up 2 rockfish at once, also on another 

 2-hook line 2 sharks at once. 

 9 140 A.M. Thirty fathoms, smooth level bottom rocky, hard; 



hauled in more fish. , 



9: 50 A. M. More fish biting on hook bait; red snappers, rockfish, 

 hamlet, etc. Sea rough and wind blowing fresh. Thirty fath- 

 oms water as before and more fish from bottom. 

 9: 50 A. M. Put dredge No. 2 overboard with heavy leads attached; 



it dragged along bottom but came up empty. 

 10 A. M. Sent dredge down again with 90 fathoms Manila line; 



ship drifting about 2 miles per hour with the wind and sea. 

 10:30 A. M. Brought up pebbles and small nodules, shells, spider 

 crabs, hydroids, corals, etc. 



We found the bottom of the "Argus Bank" as level and uni- 

 form and rocky as the "Challenger Bank." 



