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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



graphic Office, and Bureau of Weights and Standards, as well 

 as certain other departments of the Government and Imperial 

 University interested in physical and biological work. 



On board, nets were mended, rigging set-up, the sails which 

 were torn in the typhoon renewed, scientific and ship's supplies 

 replenished, instruments conditioned, and the damage from the 



The Staff of the Kakioka Magnetic Observatory 



These men were cliiefly trained abroad and maintain a splendid station for collecting 

 magnetic data. 



air-tank explosion repaired. Besides this, we had just received 

 the bronze anchor which was lost at Easter Island under such 

 exciting circumstances. This anchor had been fished up by 

 native divers, had been carried by the little Chilean tug Antartico 

 to Valparaiso and had crossed the Pacific on a Japanese liner. 



The Carnegie was moored in the inner harbor throughout our 

 stay. It was a very interesting spot. Not since Hamburg had 



