DEEP-SEA SOUNDING. 



125 



COMMANDER ALBERT S. BARKER, U.S.N., COMMANDING. 

 Uruguay, to Barbados, W. I. 



Ocean. 



Wire tended under ship on reeling in, 

 causing delay. 



After beginning to sound found that the 

 ship had not sufficient steam to breast 

 the wind, so clamped wire until steam 

 was raised sufficiently to continue. 



In reeling in the wire fouled propeller; 

 lost 204 fathoms. 



