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land, almost every prominent port of the 

 islands in the Pacific Ocean having been 

 visited. 



Though this vessel had no auxiliary 

 power whatsoever, but had to depend 

 entirely upon her sails for motive power, 

 and in spite of the fact that she encoun- 

 tered at times most terrific storms, only 

 one accident befell the party. While at 

 Yokohama the Galilee was blown by a 

 typhoon during the night of August 24, 

 1906, against the breakwater, such dam- 

 age being sustained that the vessel sank 

 in about fourteen feet of water, the party 

 and crew being obliged to take refuge in 

 the lighthouse on the breakwater and 

 remain there until the storm had sub- 

 sided. The vessel was, however, at once 

 drydocked and the repairs pushed, so 

 that ten days after the accident she left 

 Yokohama for a 6,000-mile cruise to San 

 Diego, California. Not a single life was 

 lost throughout the entire time. 



The Galilee is now to be returned to 

 her owners, and it is noted with gratifi- 

 cation that Dr Bauer's plea for a vessel 

 especially adaoted for ocean magnetic 

 work (see article above referred to) has 

 met with success. The Carnegie Insti- 

 tution has undertaken to build a vessel, 

 in the construction of which very little 

 iron will enter. The plans are now being 

 drawn by Mr Henry J. Gielow, naval 

 architect and engineer, of New York, 

 and it is expected that this new vessel, 

 to be called the Carnegie, will be ready 

 in time to resume the ocean magnetic 

 work a year from now, this time in the 

 Atlantic Ocean. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN 



THE first two volumes of Mr. Ed- 

 ward S. Curtis' work on the 

 "North American Indian" have ap- 

 peared, Volume I describing the Apache 

 and the Xavaho, and Volume II the 

 Pima, Papago, Mohave, Yuma, Mari- 

 copa, Walapai, and Apache Mohave. An 

 advance announcement of this work was 

 given in the July, 1907, number of this 

 Magazine. Mr Curtis, it will be remem- 

 bered, is making an ethnological study 

 and a photographic record of all Indians 



in the United States and Alaska still liv- 

 ing in a primitive state. His illustrations 

 are to appear in twenty quarto volumes, 

 accompanied by twenty portfolios, each 

 containing forty large photogravures. 

 The work possesses great historical and 

 ethnical value, for Mr Curtis describes 

 and pictures the Indians in their every- 

 day life, showing their customs, their 

 games, and ceremonial life in a complete 

 detail never before attempted. The fore- 

 word is by President Roosevelt, while 

 the work is edited by Mr F. W. Hodge. 



The Apaches, who at present number 

 about 6,000, for the most part live in the 

 White Mountain Reservation of Ari- 

 zona. Though their number probably 

 never exceeded 10,000, they were for 

 many years the scourge of a large region 

 in Arizona and New Mexico. The name 

 "Apache" is one of the most notorious 

 and widely-advertised of Indian names, 

 but very little was known about the 

 inner life and customs of the tribe until 

 Mr Curtis obtained the friendship of 

 their elders, and was by them initiated 

 into many of their traditions and cere- 

 monies. He had the good luck of being 

 in the Apache country when the new 

 "messiah craze" was at its height in 

 1906, and gives an interesting account of 

 the religious ecstacy of this primitive 

 folk. At present many of the Apaches 

 are working for the government on the 

 great Salt River irrigation project in 

 Arizona. 



The Navahoes, who are also described 

 in Volume I, next to the Sioux, are the 

 largest Indian tribe in the United States. 

 They are self-supporting, and own large 

 flocks and herds. They have been the 

 least affected by civilizing influences. 

 Mr Curtis calls the Navaho "the Amer- 

 ican Bedouin," and says he asks nothing 

 of the government except to be unmo- 

 lested in his pastoral life. 



The nine tribes treated in Volume II 

 reside within the limits of Arizona, but 

 extend into the Mexican state of Sonora 

 and into eastern California. 



The Yuma and the Mohave, whose 

 homes are on the banks of the mighty 

 Colorado, are usually fine specimens 



