8 DEEP-SEA SOUNDING. 



Standing the fact that fires were started in the boilers so 

 often, we did not purchase a stick of cord-wood from the 

 time the Enterprise left the Cape de Verde Islands until 

 the end of the cruise, a period of over three years, but 

 started fires with empty boxes and barrels which, instead 

 of being thrown overboard, were carefully saved for this 

 purpose. 



Particular mention is due to Lieutenant Geo. A. 

 Norris, Lieutenant Adolph Marix, and Chief Engineer 

 H. D. McEwan, whose intelligence, zeal, and devotion 

 to duty could not be surpassed. 



These officers were more intimately connected with 

 the work than the others, Mr. Norris being the navigator 

 on the outward, and Mr. Marix on the return voyage, 

 while Chief Engineer McEwan personally superintended 

 everything connected with his own department — keep- 

 ing it in perfect order, besides assisting in other ways to 

 the success of the work in hand. 



