LOG OF THE ARCTURUS 415 



The volcano is faintly visible to-night, and all day a dim pink glow 

 hangs over the spot, reflected in low cloud banks. 

 Noon position: Lat. 0° 17' S: Long. 91° 34' W. 



June 10th. Diving in a wonderful place to-day, amidst sea-weed so 

 tall and thick it was like a corn-field. The trawls brought in two 

 Oneirodes alive, that gave an exhibition of lighting in the dark-room. 

 Petersen and metre nets in the afternoon. 



Some one should start tours to this part of the world and adver- 

 tise, "Spend the summer on the Equator and keep cool." It is really 

 chilly here. 



June 11th. An 18-foot ray harpooned from a small boat this morn- 

 ing and it took two hours, three men, four harpoons and a shot-gun 

 to land it. Frantic excitement, with boats milling about, shouts and 

 shots and scurrying, before the creature was hoisted aboard the 

 Arcturus. The deck now looks like a slaughter-house, as the victim 

 weighed over a ton, and dissection on such a large scale is very messy. 

 A thirty-pound embryo taken from it, in perfect condition. 



Diving and dynamiting proceeding as usual. The following list is 

 the result of two discharges: 



25 Holocanthus passer. 

 12 Xesurus laticlavius. 

 39 Paranthias furcifer — small. 



6 Paranthias furcifer — medium. 

 24 Orange-pectoraled Pomacentrus. 



1 Brown Pomacentrus. 

 15 Apogon atradorsatus. 



3 Bodianus eclancheri (black). 



1 Bodianus eclancheri (orange and black). 



2 Bodianus diplotania. 



3 Mottled Groupers. 

 1 Anisotremus. 



1 Red Epinephetus. 



June 12th. No rain — but no sun. Twenty miles off Narborough, 

 to the west. At 6 a. m. sounded in 1900 fathoms, and at 8 a. m. put 

 over a Petersen at 1000 fathoms, and five metre nets at 800, 600, 500 

 and 400 fathoms. Excellent hauls, including seventeen new species of 

 fish. Worked south of Narborough during afternoon, and to-morrow 

 go to north of Albemarle. 



Last night a stormy petrel flew on board, — the dark phase of 

 Oceanodroma leucorrhea, with no white on the rump. Confused voices 

 of seabirds crying through the darkness all night. 



The last piece of ray went overboard to-day and decks scrubbed. 



Noon position: Lat. 0° 47' S: Long. 91° 41' W. 



June 13th. Captain feeling jocose this morning, blew the foghorn 

 at dawn and pointed out a tropicbird! Sounded in 1720 fathoms, on 



