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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



Nothing can be more exhilarating than to race before one of these 

 short wind-squalls on a small sailing-vessel like the Carnegie. 

 Promptly at two o'clock in the afternoon, for several days in a 

 row, we would feel the ship slowly heel over beneath our feet, 

 and hear the low droning hum of the breeze in the rigging rise 



The Biologist Using a Dip-net fuom the "Boom-walk" 



The boom-walk consists of two 30-foot booms with a net between and enables the 

 observer to collect specimens beyond the disturbance caused by the ship's wash. 



in a steady crescendo, higher and higher in pitch as the vessel 

 gathered momentum, until the jibs quivered and flapped as the 

 helmsman eased off a bit. During the next two weeks we used 

 these squalls to best advantage, for once they passed over we 

 would be left floundering around in a calm. 



It had been growing steadily warmer, and Soule had to regulate 



