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would raise or lower the chamber until George gave 

 the word to stop. Sometimes the party would drift 

 along with the tide, and photograph whatever came 

 within range of the camera. 



Some idea may be obtained of the powerful rays 

 of the tropical sun from the fact that they were able 

 to photograph objects under the sea at a distance 

 from the camera of one hundred and fifty feet. In 

 this way the party secured some extraordinary sub- 

 marine pictures, which amounted to about twenty 

 thousand feet of film. They took native boys diving 

 for pennies and scrambling for them at the bottom 

 of the deep. They took a photograph of George 

 Williamson in his diving suit, searching for treasure 

 near a wreck, while a column of bubbles boiled up 

 from his helmet. They also took a picture of a 

 native diver swimming through a sea forest of palms 

 and ferns, then seated on the bottom of the ocean fan- 

 ning himself with a purple sea-fan. 



Then, just to add the final touch to their 

 adventures beneath the sea, they took pictures at 

 midnight with the aid of their Cooper-Hewitt, which 

 were hung over the side of the ship and lowered 

 down below the surface of the water. They obtained 

 by this means some splendid pictures. One film 

 was of a diver moving among myriads of small 

 fish that swarmed about him, attracted like moths 

 by the electric light. They discovered that a tap- 

 ping sound on the observation glass would attract 

 the fish, and they could see them turn and listen 

 and then come swimming towards them. 



