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Without going further into detail, we 

 reached Honolulu next morning, where 

 a few days were spent in putting away 

 the preserved specimens in trunks, see- 

 ing to the soldering of large tin vessels 

 and having packing boxes fitted up. It 

 was extremely difficult to take care of the 

 specimens preserved in formaline, which 

 were in tin cans, for the salt in the air 

 and water caused the tin to rust very 

 quickly, and all vessels had to be sol- 

 dered and resoldered during the time 

 we were on the islands. 



On a certain dark, rainy night at 

 nine o'clock we said a reluctant good- 

 bye to our kind Honolulu friends, and 

 went out on a tugboat to the "Aor- 

 angi," up whose dark looming sides we 

 had to climb on a swinging ladder. In 

 two weeks more we were back in Min- 

 neapolis, arriving there on August 9th. 

 Every tin can in the collection was 



