NARRATIVE OF THE CRUISE 



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Our New Year's dinner was less of a gastronomic treat than 

 the one on Christmas, for the bay-leaves and "kitchen bouquet" 

 could not disguise the fact that the chicken came from a tin can. 

 Nevertheless, we made up for this by making a deafening racket 

 to welcome in the new year. The noisiest record was played on 



Large Deep-sea Organism 

 Resembling a pink stocking captured with a silk net at a depth of 1,000 meters — these 

 jelly-like animals often arrested the "messengers' 

 Nansen sampling-bottles. 



sent down the wires to reverse the 



the Victrola, pots and pans were requisitioned from the galley, 

 the fog-horn was brought out, and before we were through, Seiwell 

 went on deck to discharge the bird -gun. Those of us who stayed 

 below did not even hear him, such a din was being raised in the 

 close quarters of the cabin! 



The first week of 1929 was featured by calms and light airs. 



