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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



On the day before we sailed, Oscar, the cook, was thrown from 

 a horse, dislocating his shoulder. Fortunately, he was not far 

 from the hospital, where he was cared for until the vessel sailed. 



With our scientific program completed, we made our arrange- 

 ments for departure, and on April 20 set our course northwest 

 towards Guam by way of Wake Island. We were to sail short- 

 handed because Seiwell, who had been in charge of the biological 

 and chemical program, returned from Apia to the United States. 



Collecting Biological Specimens on the Reef at Low Tide, Apia 



The apparatus for determining the electrical potential gradient of the atmosphere 

 was set up on this reef. 



Paid was then designated to carry on this work until Graham 

 joined the ship in San Francisco. 



While at breakfast the first morning out from Apia, a sailor 

 shouted through the cabin-skylight that two stowaways had been 

 found in the forepeak, a dark imventilated storage-space in the 

 bow of the ship. When Captain Aidt came on deck they begged 

 to be allowed to work on board without pay — even offered to 

 swim back to Apia, a distance of sixty -five miles, to avoid going 



