NARRATIVE OF THE CRUISE 



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Seiwell Inspecting a Plankton-catch 

 These minute animals and plants display every color of the rainbow and an infinite 

 variety of forms 



with only enough sail to keep her hove-to. The bottle wire 

 stretched out to windward at an angle of 50° from the vertical, 

 and it was not feasible to reach down more than 400 meters. 



