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On June 20, we held an "at home" aboard the ship and through- 

 out the dav boatload after boatload of keenly-interested scientific 

 men and technical students inspected our equipment. Cameras 

 clicked, pencils scratched, and questions were fired, as the visitors 

 made the rounds. Nowhere had a more lively and intelligent 

 interest been displayed in the vessel. Virtually every laboratory 

 and observatory in this part of Japan had sent its delegation. 



We had passed a delightful fortnight in the invigorating atmos- 

 phere of this busy, progressive country. We had made most 

 satisfactory contacts with Japanese men of science and our 

 necessary shore- work was completed. So on June '24 we sailed 

 down the bay — Homeward Bound! 



We were to be short-handed in the crew as well as in the staff; 

 for the Tahitian sailor who had signed on in Papeete did not report 

 for duty on sailing day. No substitute could be found. There 

 was an additional handicap in that the piano-wire ordered from 

 Germany had not arrived in time to be taken aboard. It would 

 be necessary to use the utmost caution in getting bottom-samples 

 for by now we had no reserve supply of wire. 



YOKOHAMA TO SAN FRANCISCO TO HONOLULU TO 



TUTUILA TO APIA 



The head-wind encountered in sailing out of port made it neces- 

 sary to use the engine and fore-and-aft sails; so we required even 

 more time to make the southward passage than in coming in. 

 Tacking was most difficult in a bay cluttered up with junks and 

 fishing-boats, often in long tows of six or eight, or connected by 

 seines. 



The first ten days brought calms and variable winds so that we 

 averaged only ninety miles a day even with the engine running. 

 However, these calms gave us favorable conditions for "swinging 

 ship" for magnetic deviations. On the Fourth of July we entered 

 the cold fogs and drizzle of the North Pacific. In this region we 

 were to see only fleeting glimpses of the sun for two weeks or 

 more. The copper stove was put into commission to heat the 

 cabin, and was not removed until our arrival at San Francisco 

 four weeks later. Adverse winds drove us three hundred miles 



