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En route to Benguella he made repeat observations at the Depart- 

 ment's stations, Libreville and Cape Lopez in French Equatorial 

 Africa, and at 3 stations in the Belgian Congo. In Angola he observed 

 at 7 stations where observations had been made previously, and at 

 Loanda he also secured intercomparison of instruments at the Joao 

 Capello Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory. 



Mr. Brown's route through Portuguese East Africa followed the 

 railway eastward from Benguella to the railhead, repeat observations 

 being secured en route at Huambo. From the railhead he continued 

 by carrier, following the projected railway route from Benguella to 

 EUsabethville by w^ay of Cuanza, Moxico, Nana Candundo, Kalene 

 Hill in Northern Rhodesia, and Ruwe in Belgian Congo, where he 

 reoccupied Mr. Wise's station of 1914, to Chilongo on the railway. 

 After occupying the Department's station at Kambove, he reached 

 Elisabethville at the end of June. Important secular-variation data 

 were obtained during June 30 to the middle of July at the Department's 

 stations, EUsabethville, Broken Hill, and Victoria Falls. A new 

 station was also established at Livingstone. Leaving I^fue on July 23, 

 he proceeded by carriers, the Kafue River route being impracticable, 

 to Feira, arriving there about the end of July. He traveled thence 

 down the Zambezi River to Chinde and Beira, arriving at the latter 

 point late in September. After reoccupying the Department's Stations 

 in Portuguese East Africa, he proceeded to Madagascar, where he 

 expected to make comparisons of instruments at the Tananarive 

 Observatory and to secure observations at a number of field stations. 

 From Madagascar he will take up work along the east coast of Africa, 

 reoccupying as many previous stations as practicable. 



The observers of the Carnegie made magnetic observations at Cape 

 Town during the vessel's call there. 



ASIA. 



Captain Roald Amundsen, with instruments loaned him by the 

 Department, secured during the winter of 1918-1919, a series of obser- 

 vations at ''Maudhaven" (latitude 77° 33' N and longitude 105° 40'), 

 the winter quarters of his Arctic expedition . The observational records 

 for this work were to have been forwarded by way of Port Dickson, 

 but unfortunately they were lost on the coast of Siberia. On reaching 

 Nome, Alaska, at the end of July 1920, Captain Amundsen forwarded 

 copies of the essential parts of these records, as well as of observational 

 records for the winter of 1919-1920 at his station in latitude 69° 52' N. 

 and longitude 167° 43' E. During the two winters short expeditions to 

 points along the coast were undertaken, so that observations were made 

 at about 40 points in all. After a short stay at Nome, Captain 

 Amundsen resumed his Arctic explorations. 



Observations were made at the Department station by the observers 

 of the Carnegie during her call at Colombo, Ceylon. 



