xil ILLUSTRATIONS 



128. Captain Ault pays his respects to the native chief of Amanu 231 



129. Our first drink of coconut-water 233 



130. Boatload of native guests leaving the harbor at Amanu for a visit to the 



Carnegie 233 



131. Soule, Jones, Scott, and Torreson visit the "Transit-of- Venus Monument" near 



Papeete 235 



132 Fisherman's hut on the island of Tahiti 237 



133. Tahiti has a magnificent coast-line 239 



134. Inlet near Taravao, Island of Tahiti 240 



135. A group of Samoan chieftains 241 



136. Samoan men resting in front of the "fale" after a "siva-siva" dance, Apia . 242 



137. A Samoan house under construction 243 



138. The interior of a Samoan "fale" 244 



139. Samoan boy dressed for a "siva-siva" dance 246 



140. A Samoan chief dressed for the "knife-dance" 247 



141. The beautiful grounds of the magnetic observatory at Apia 249 



142. The atmospheric-electric station set up on the reef near Apia 250 



143. Tomb of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson on Mount Vaea, near Apia 251 



144. Gigantic banyan tree near Apia 253 



145. Collecting biological specimens on reef at low tide, Apia 254 



146. Shark 255 



147. A "snapper" type of bottom-sampler 257 



148. Wake Island in the mid-Pacific 260 



149. Chamorro houses near Agana, Guam 261 



150. A lane in Agana, Guam 263 



151. Chamorro woman, Guam 264 



152. Chart showing bottom-profile in the vicinity of "Fleming Deep" 265 



153. Japanese fishing-boat, the Ichio-maru 267 



154. The Carnegie hove-to after a storm 269 



155. Two Japanese flappers 270 



156. Magnetic Observatory at Kakioka, Japan 271 



157. The staff of the Kakioka Magnetic Observatory 272 



158. Kegon falls near Nikko 273 



159. School children on pilgrimage to shrine at Nikko 274 



160. Sacred red lacquer bridge at Nikko 275 



161. The Japanese oceanographic research-vessel, the Synpu-morn 277 



162. Officers and crew of the Synpu-maru 277 



163. The old Japanese method of sawing logs 279 



164. Wall around the old Imperial Palace at Kyoto 280 



165. Captain Ault about to descend in the diving-helmet 282 



166. Observing the flight of the pilot-balloon "283 



167. A "gooney" or black-footed albatross 285 



168. The "gooney" or black-footed albatross, a constant companion in the North 



Pacific 286 



169. Gish testing the penetrating-radiation aparatus at Crystal Lake, San Francisco . 289 



170. The Carnegie dressed for the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 



founding of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 291 



171. Visitors on the quarter-deck 292 



