EXTRACTS FROM THE LOGS OF THE CRUISES IN THE 

 FAEROE CHANNEL, 1899—1902. 



The Walwin is a little cutter of thirty-six tons, originally built at 

 Salcombe, and was first devoted by me to scientific work in 1899. 

 Manned by a crew of Shetlanders, than whom there are no finer 

 seamen in the world, she cruised round Shetland from October, 1899, 

 to June, 1900, visiting four stations, referred to afterwards as I., II., 

 III., IV., once a month, taking temperatures, collecting water samples 

 (part of the time), and dredging and collecting plankton. From the 

 first Buchan Henry has been in charge of the apparatus used on 

 board the Walwin and on the Silver Belle, in the later more extended 

 cruises ; and probably there are few who have acquired a more 

 intimate knowledge of the conduct of such observations on board a 

 sailing-ship than he. In July, 1900, the little Walwin made her first 

 trip to Faeroe, revisiting some of the stations in August of that year. 

 In 1901 she made other cruises to Faeroe, in May and June, and revisited 

 some stations in the Faeroe Channel in July. In 1902 she crossed the 

 Faeroe Channel in May, June, and July, and revisited some stations in 

 August. It would be tedious to reproduce the ship's log of these 

 passages ; but all who know this region will admit that pitching about 

 the Faeroe Channel in a little 36-ton boat is not the pleasantest of 

 experiences, and it needs determination as well as scientific enthusiasm 

 to conduct observations under these conditions. The work was 

 especially arduous, because there was no room for steam to assist 

 haulage in such a small vessel ; consequently everything had to be 

 done by willing hands. As an example of the kind of weather some- 

 times met with round Shetland in the winter-time, the following brief 

 extract from the log may be taken : 



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