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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



out of our course between July 9 and 12; yet the fair breezes we 

 encountered on the 14th drove us through the water toward home 

 at the rate of two hundred miles a day for twenty days. 



The overcast, foggy weather seriously interfered with much of 

 our work. Declination-observations, in which the position of 

 the sun is used in determining the compass-error, had virtually 



Captain Ault about to Descend in the Diving-helmet 



To untangle the sounding-wires which had fouled the oscillator in the keel during an 

 oceanographic station. 



to be abandoned. Pilot-balloon flights were impossible; and 

 atmospheric-electric work was considerably hampered. However, 

 the most discouraging result of this wretched weather was that 

 the whole party came down with heavy colds and Parkinson was 

 so ill that he was confined to bed. 



The first oceanographic station after leaving Yokohama re- 

 quired seven hours to complete. The strong currents fouled the 

 piano- wire with the bottle-series. This event was more serious 



