EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



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more the first warnino- that tlie 

 Avas had thr()U<>h si<ihtinL^ islaiul 

 close aboard. 



diij) was near the Greenland coast 

 i and breakers in the foir and mist 



READY TO LOWER AWAY 



Figure 12. — The water bottle has been clamped to the wire and has 

 a messenger attached to its lower end. This messenger will be 

 free to run down the wire as soon as a similar messenger from 

 the bottle to be placed higher on the wire runs down to strike the 

 top of the bottle shown here. In this manner the bottles are 

 successively tripped after an entire string of them is lowered to 

 the desired depth for observations. 



The afternoon was spent running northward from the inshore sta- 

 tion of the above-mentioned line. As the ship passed the Western 

 Islands and the Whalefish Islands occasional breaks in the fog per- 



