348 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
and palms behind it with mountains rising beyond, also a moon 
and drifting clouds. He made separate pictures for the house, 
shrubbery, palms, mountains, clouds and moon. These were 
afterwards superimposed so as to make a picture that satisfied 
the demands of the director. 
The man who was brought on board on a stretcher at Papeete 
was a general favorite, called ‘‘Pat.’’ He was said to have had 
more hairbreath escapes than any one else on the ship. He had 
been shipwrecked three times, in one of which his entire family 
was lost; had fallen five hundred feet from an aeroplane besides 
having numerous other thrilling adventures. He was a quiet, 
unassuming sort of fellow. 
One day all passengers were required to make declarations for 
the United States customs, so it looked as if we were nearing 
port. Another sign of nearing home was the reappearance of 
the Great Bear above the northern horizon. 
There was considerable gaiety on board in the evenings, in- 
cluding dancing on deck, some of the womens’ costumes being 
apparently quite up to, or down to, the reputation of the much 
advertised Hollywood crowd. But among them was a dear little 
girl about ten years old, called ‘‘Mary Jane.’’ She was perfect- 
ly naive and unspoiled and had most charming manners. We 
were told that she was paid an enormous salary but her mother, 
who accompanied her, was evidently a woman of sound principles 
and good sense and had succeeded in keeping her artless and 
unspoiled in spite of unfavorable surroundings. 
On August 31 we entered the North temperate zone. The 
long climb from the bottom of the ‘‘track chart’’ posted near the 
dining saloon added a step in our progress for each day. Com- 
mencing down near 41° South Latitude we had traversed a 
good deal of the south temperate zone, the south and north 
tropical zones and were reaching our destination in the north 
temperate. On all this long voyage there had been nothing like 
a storm or even really rough seas. There had been occasional 
showers, but not a day without sunshine. It had been comfort- 
able every day in our staterooms without using the electric fans. 
We had traveled over twelve thousand miles at sea since leaving 
Vancouver and, except in the vicinity of ports, had seen but two 
vessels during the whole time and these were companion ships 
going in the opposite direction, one on the outward voyage and 
