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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



demand by primitive folk. During the night thousands of people 

 arrive in the city. By dawn the streets are covered with little 

 piles of merchandise and the bartering has commenced. 



When their work at the Observatory was completed, Captain 

 Ault and Soule returned to the ship. When they arrived in Callao 

 they told a hair-raising tale of a ride down the sixteen thousand 

 feet on an open hand-car. They plunged through jet-black 



Flowering Cactus 

 Thrives in the high valleys of the Andes— these are growing near the Magnetic Observa- 

 tory at Huancayo. 



tunnels only to shoot out, with abandon, on to dizzy trestles and 

 around breath-taking curves with the sky below. The Peruvian 

 guard, with whom they rode, went in advance of the train to "feel 

 out" the track for any break or loose stones on the right of way. 

 For once, they realized how cold can bite! The whole flying 

 descent was made by gravity, and there was only a small hand- 

 brake to ease them over the most appalling stretches. 



