SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS IN THE INTEREST 



OF SCIENCE 



Adventures Through 157,000 Miles of Storm and Calm, 



from Arctic to Antarctic and Around the World, 



in the Non-magnetic Yacht c c Carnegie ' ' 



By J. P. Ault 



Commander oe the "Carnegie" 



THE average man who has heen 

 wandering ahont over the face of 

 the globe is always glad to return 

 to his own home land. 



The Icelander born and raised in Reyk- 

 javik, after living for a few years in 

 Winnipeg, Canada, returns to Reykjavik, 

 as he says it was too cold for him in 

 Winnipeg. This seems to us to be im- 

 aginary until we learn that the tempera- 

 ture rarely goes below 10 degrees above 

 zero Fahrenheit at Reykjavik. 



The South Sea Islander, after a brief 

 sojourn in the United States, returns to 

 his island home, as the rush and strife of 

 civilization were too confusing for him. 



Even the Eskimo, who faces a continu- 

 ous struggle to survive in the frozen 

 north, would not trade places with the 

 Samoan, whose life of ease is fabled in 

 song and story and who faces an existence 

 characterized by Stevenson as "one long, 

 unbroken uniformity of days." 



On the other hand, the man who has 

 traveled is always the envy of him who 

 has had to remain at home ; and so we are 

 never content. To this spirit of discon- 

 tent, this refusal to ignore the challenge 

 of the Earth's wide spaces, of her untrav- 

 eled latitudes, we owe our present knowl- 

 edge of the world's geography. 



In visiting the remote corners of the 

 world our first impression reveals how 

 little we really know beforehand of these 

 places and of their people. And the peo- 

 ple who dwell in those distant places know, 

 perhaps, less of us and of our country. 

 The American "movie" has done much to 

 enlighten them about certain of our habits 

 and customs, but the net result has been 

 that every American is considered to be 

 wealthy. 



The prospect of taking an automobile 

 sight-seeing trip over the lava fields of 



Iceland had never been suggested to our 

 imagination. The American peanut was 

 as unfamiliar to the people of Hammer- 

 fest, Norway, as is the mangosteen of 

 India to us. At first they tried to eat the 

 shell and all. 



purpose; of the "carnegie" cruises 



To increase our knowledge of the con- 

 stitution of the Earth's magnetic field and 

 to learn more of the amount and variation 

 of the electricity in the atmosphere sur- 

 rounding the Earth, the non-magnetic ves- 

 sel, the yacht Carnegie, has been making 

 her cruises since 1909. 



Carrying out the idea of the Director, 

 Dr. Louis A. Bauer, the Department of 

 Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, in 1905 began 

 making a general magnetic survey of the 

 globe, both on land and at sea. 



In the course of the ocean work a great 

 many interesting places have been visited 

 during the three cruises of the Galilee, 

 1905 to 1908, the first vessel used by us in 

 making a survey of the Pacific Ocean, 

 covering 73,508 statute miles, and during 

 the six cruises of the Carnegie, 1909 to 

 1 92 1, covering 291,595 statute miles. 



This article is concerned only with the 

 Carnegie cruises III, IV, and VI, which 

 are shown on the accompanying track 

 chart (see page 634). 



To relieve the tedium of chronicle, these 

 three cruises will be outlined briefly, thus 

 serving to orient the reader properly as 

 to time and place. Cruise III, covering 

 11,009 m iles, began at New York in June, 

 1 91 4, and ended at the same place in 

 October of the same year, calls being- 

 made at Hammer f est, Norway, and at 

 Reykjavik, Iceland. 



Cruise IV, covering 73,009 miles, be- 

 gan at New York in March, 191 5, and 



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