Work in the Pacific Ocean 



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Fiti Fiti Guard, Samoan Islands 



science requires an accurate set of these 

 latter charts as well as of the first one, 

 if any progress is to be made in the solu- 

 tion of some of the questions above 

 raised. You will therefore be interested 

 to know that the work of the Carneg'ie 

 Institution has already shown that the 

 values of dip given by the latest charts 

 were found to be out from 1° to 3° and 

 more, being in general too small, and that 

 the chart values of horizontal magnetic 

 force were in general too high by about 

 I /25th part. 



So much for a brief statement of the 

 general results already achieved ; now a 

 few words as to the vessel, personnel, 

 methods employed, and the cruises. 



After considerable advertisement, we 

 chartered the brig Galilee, a wooden 

 sailing vessel built by Matthew Turner, 

 of California, in 1891 and engaged in 

 freighting in the Pacific Ocean. Her 

 length is 132.4 feet; breadth. 33.4 feet: 

 depth, 12.6 feet, and her displacement 

 about 600 tons. She has the record of be- 

 ing one of the fastest sailing vessels of 



her size in the Pacific Ocean. Besides 

 the scientific party, consisting at present 

 of Mr W. J. Peters, commander of the 

 expedition ; Messrs J. C. Pearson and 

 D. C. Sowers, magnetic observers, and 

 Dr George Peterson, surgeon and re- 

 corder, the Galilee carries a crew of ten 

 men and sailing master. Captain J- T. 

 Hayes. (Members of the National 

 Geographic Society will recall that Mr 

 Peters, the energetic commander of the 

 Galilee, was their representative on the 

 Ziegler Polar Expedition of 1903—05 as 

 second in command and in charge of the 

 scientific work.) 



Through the courtesy of the Secretary 

 of Commerce and Labor the Galilee has 

 been classified as a yacht, thus greatly 

 facilitating her passages between foreign 

 and domestic ports, as far as compliance 

 with the usual custom-house formalities 

 are concerned. 



The principal changes required tO' 

 adapt the chosen vessel to the work un- 

 dertaken were the substitution of the steel 

 rigging by hemp, the replacing as far 



