CHAPTER XVI 



LOG OF THE ARCTURUS 



BY WILLIAM BEEBE AND RUTH ROSE 



We have thought it worth while to present a very brief resum^ of 

 each day on the trip, together with the noon position. No attempt 

 has been made to list the liauls or to tabulate any data which belongs 

 more appropriately to future technical papers which will appear in 

 the Zoological Society's ZOOLOGICA. 



Up to the present time about twenty of the drift bottles thrown 

 overboard have been recovered, and their distances and time of drift 

 recorded. A typical example is bottle Number 885 which was thrown 

 overboard from the Arcturus on June 29th, in N. Lat. 14° 10' and 

 W. Long. 76° 43'. Fifty-nine days later it was picked up on the 

 shore of St. George Bay, British Honduras, in N. Lat. 17° 33' and 

 W. Long. 88° 05', having thus floated and drifted a distance of 720 

 miles, or over 12 miles a day. 



Feb. 10th, 1925. Brooklyn, New York. Sailing day. Reception 

 on board for all our friends to come and look their last. Large crowd. 

 Reporters much perplexed trying to distinguish visitors from ex- 

 peditionists. Sailed about 2:30; beautiful day till we reached lower 

 bay, then heavy fog shut down and we had to anchor there for the 

 night, waiting for clear weather to swing our compasses. 



Feb. 11th and 12th. Progressing slowly toward Newport News 

 to coal for first leg of voyage. Gale and heavy seas. 



Feb. 13th. Arrived Newport News at daylight. Coaling begun at 

 once and those of the party who came by train were found to have 

 been waiting for us since the day before. Last day ashore spent in 

 feverishly buying everything in sight, for fear we might have over- 

 looked some necessity. Ten-cent stores practically cleaned out. 

 Everyone obsessed by feeling that this was the last chance we should 

 ever have to purchase anything. 



Feb. 14th. Sailed at 4:30 p. m., headed for Bermuda. 



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