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On leaving Cook's Bay we had sent Mr. Edmunds a note re- 

 questing him to fish up our bronze anchor, if possible, and to 

 forward it by the Antartico to Valparaiso. A sketch was made 

 showing the bearings of the ship when we lowered the anchor, 

 hoping that this might enable his men to locate it. The anchor- 

 buoy had disappeared below the surface for some unaccountable 

 reason, so that the usual mark for lost ground-tackle could not 

 be used. 



A few months later we had a radio from headquarters in Wash- 

 ington saying that our anchor was in Valparaiso and that it was 

 being shipped to Japan for us. Mr. Edmunds had written a 



PHYSICAL FEATURES VERTICAL CROSS-SECTIONS OCEAN-WATER PACIFIC OCEAN 



PASSAGE CANAL ZONE TO EASIER ISLAND TO PERU-OCTOBER 1926 TO JANUARY I9J9 

 64 



OCEAN-STATIONS 35-70 

 61 60 59 58 S; 56SS5g SI 50 49 48 4/ 



Typical Vertical Section Showing Temperatures at Various Depths for Voyage 

 FROM Panama to Easter Isl.\.nd to Peru 



letter telling us how it had been recovered. The water was too 

 deep for the natives to dive for it, so they hauled up on the buoy- 

 rope, hoping that it would hold the heavy weight — and it did. 



Fishing for lost ground-tackle was by no means a new task for 

 Easter Islanders. The usual method is to lower a man to the 

 bottom on a small kedge-anchor, have him attach a heavy rope, 

 and bring him with the anchor to the surface. A few years ago 

 one of these natives divers was badly mangled when he was fouled 

 in the lines. 



Radio contacts continued to be very erratic. "Skip-distance" 

 effects played havoc with the schedules. For the two weeks 



