228 THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



thus revealed was named after Dr. Bauer, the Director of our De- 

 partment in Washington. Throughout the voyage from Peru 

 to Tahiti, the bottom was found to be very irreguhir. Echoes 

 from as many as six surfaces on the bottom would be returned 

 from a single signal of the oscillator. 



Although the depth-finder had been giving good service since 

 the repairs had been made in Peru, certain parts were beginning 

 to show signs of wear. So Soule gave it a complete overhauling 

 and replaced several parts, including a new set of brushes. 



The bottom-sampling was never more successful than on this 

 leg of the cruise. A specimen was collected from virtually every 

 oceanographic station. The samples represented almost every 

 type of mud, sand, and ooze, with an occasional piece of lava. 

 The colors were also various; there being white, grey, brown, 

 bluish-green, chocolate, and black among them. The only fail- 

 ure to recover a specimen was due to the sample being washed 

 out of the snapper while it was being brought back to the surface. 

 The jaws were closed as usual and showed signs of having been 

 on the bottom. Captain Ault considered fitting the sampler 

 with a rubber apron; but the infrequency with which this particu- 

 lar difficulty was met with made him decide against further com- 

 plicating the apparatus. 



The full moon and glorious weather made the evenings delight- 

 ful. Our sporadic efforts to produce vocal harmony on the quar- 

 ter-deck were revived. Someone had discovered that Aage Hen- 

 ricksen, one of the seamen, had a note-book filled with sea-songs. 

 Many of the old sea-chanteys were there, but were buried in a 

 mass of unsingable ditties picked up on the water-fronts of the 

 world. 



On these nights it was usual to hear strange buzzing noises 

 emanating from Parkinson's electric laboratory. He expected 

 to leave the vessel in Australia to return tothe Watheroo Magnetic 

 Observatorv. A short-wave radio set had been installed there 

 and he was learning to operate such a set in his few spare moments 

 on board. He had ordered a small apparatus from the United 

 States which gave one practice in reading Morse code. The out- 

 fit was received in Peru and he was now learning to read fast 



