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and two experienced foremen from the Public Works Department, Messrs. A. Wellb 

 and J. Herbert, were selected in Sydney to assist me. We journeyed from Sydney 

 to Suva, in Fiji, in the s.s. " Ovalau," arriving on the 8th of August, and after trans- 

 ferring our gear and luggage to H.M.S. " Porpoise " we started for Funafuti on 

 the 10th at 1 p.m., arriving at the atoll on the 13th at daylight. 



The ship was moored in the position indicated on the chart without any difficulty, 

 and the staging rigged and everything made ready on the 13th and 14th, and we 

 started lowering the boring tubes on the 15th of August at 6 a.m., in 101 feet of 

 water at low- water spring tides. The illustration showing the method adopted of 



Fig. 20. — Boring upparatus on H.M.S. " Porpoise." 



working the boring* gear from the bow of the ship, is from a photograph by 

 Lieut. Gaunt, R.N., one which I took having been destroyed. The confined space 

 we had at our disposal and the inconvenience of working from a hanging stage, was 

 against making rapid progress, and had it not been for the ready help afforded by the 

 officers and men of the ship it would have been impossible under the circumstances 

 to have carried out the work at all. 



Four -inch wrought-iron artesian well tubing was used, having an inside diameter ot 

 3f inches, this size having been found capable of withstanding considerable 



