no TO DAVY JONES S LOCKER 



excited by the fishes that I was seeing perhaps more than 

 I have ever been by other organisms, but it was only an 

 intensification of my surface and laboratory interest: I 

 have seen strange fluorescence and ultra-violet illumina- 

 tion in the laboratories of physicists: I recall the weird 

 effects of color shifting through distant snow crystals on 

 the high Himalayas, and I have been impressed by the 

 eerie illumination, or lack of it, during a full eclipse of 

 the sun. But this was beyond and outside all or any of 

 these. I think we both experienced a wholly new kind of 

 mental reception of color impression. I felt I was dealing 

 with something too different to be classified in usual terms. 



All our remarks were recorded by Miss Hollister and 

 when I read them later, the repetition of our insistence 

 upon the brilliance, which yet was not brilliance, was 

 almost absurd. Yet I find that I must continue to write 

 about it, if only to prove how utterly inadequate lan- 

 guage is to translate vividly, feeling and sensations under 

 a condition as unique as submersion at this depth. 



The electric searchlight now became visible. Hereto- 

 fore we could see no change whatever in the outside water 

 when it was turned on, but now a pale shaft of yellow — 

 intensely yellow — light shot out through the blue, very 

 faint but serving to illuminate anything which crossed it. 

 Most of the time I chose to have it cut off, for I wanted 

 more than anything else to see all that I could of the 

 luminescence of the living creatures. 



After a few minutes I sent up an order, and I knew 



