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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I926 



the rainiest time of the year. On ii days there were fine observing 

 conditions each forenoon, though a bit of rain fell sometimes towards 

 nightfall. That is surely a favorable record. There were absolutely 

 no cirrus clouds — those wisps that slightly veil the sun and are fatal 

 to our observing'. There was very little wind — almost none in the 

 forenoons — though in winter it sometimes blows hard. 



Mount Brukkaros lies in a Hottentot reservation, and a vote of 

 the tribe was necessary to permit us to locate there. This was 



Fic. 6 — Hottentot village near Alt. Brukkaros, South West Africa, which will 

 be the headquarters of the expedition. 



easily carried. Lying about 20 miles to the west of the railroad and 

 250 miles south of Windhoek, capital of South West Africa, Mount 

 Brukkaros sticks out as the only peak of consequence in a circle at 

 least 50 miles in diameter. 



Thus the observers are exiled to a crater in the wilderness seven 

 miles even from Hottentot neighbors (at Berseba) and 60 miles 

 from a fair-sized town (Keetmanshoop). We hope their loneliness 

 will be mitigated by the facts that they are both fine fellows, inured 

 to camp life ; that they will have interesting work ; that there will 

 be games, music, books, and radio to beguile leisure hours; and 

 that the leopards and other wild game, so plentiful in the vicinity, 



