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kind of work. The apparatus necessary must all be 

 made or obtained in advance. The difference in 

 voltage of the local plant could upset the entire 

 trip's results and to make any special thing that you 

 could do at home in a half hour may take a week to 

 do or get in the shops if there are any there in these 

 out-of-the-way places. I had taken the precaution to 

 find out all the conditions before starting, but even 

 at the best I had only ten days' actual time to learn 

 how to get my under-sea pictures. This was partly 

 due to the weather as we had a week's storm when 

 it rained almost continually. Still if I could not do 

 what I wanted I could do something else, as a camera 

 could take a picture of a tropical bud opening as well 

 in the laboratory on a rainy day as if the sun were 

 shining, or the microscope could do its part also. 



Six weeks is a very short time to get established, 

 find out where the material is, what new things there 

 are that can be used, study their habits from the 

 standpoint of getting or picturing their life habits. 

 One should have a field man to keep a constant 

 stream of material available. Untrained native help 

 is unsatisfactory and white help impossible to get as 

 there was not a single unemployed man on the 

 islands, they all being connected with the navy. In 

 fact, white people are not encouraged to come un- 

 less they have some definite work to do. They can- 



