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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Drawn by A. H. Bumstead 

 A CHART SHOWING THE ROUTES TRAVERSED BY THE "CARNEGIE" DURING THREE 

 VOYAGES, COVERING 157,000 MILJ<S 



This outline chart is drawn on the same copyright projection as that used for the National 

 Geographic Society's new Map of the World, which is issued as a supplement with this number 

 of The Geographic (see text, page 690). 



ended at Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 

 April, 19 1 7, the route being mainly in the 

 Pacific Ocean and including a circum- 

 navigation of the globe in sub- Antarctic 

 regions. 



Cruise VI, covering 73,750 miles, be- 

 gan at Washington, D. C, in October, 

 19 1 9, and ended at the same place in 

 November, 1921, the vessel making a com- 

 plete circumnavigation of the globe by 

 way of the Atlantic Ocean, around the 

 Cape of Good Hope, up through the In- 

 dian Ocean, and, after spending almost a 

 year in the Pacific Ocean, home through 

 the Panama Canal. 



In this article the well-known places 

 visited will be described only briefly, more 

 details being given concerning those places 

 about which very little has been written.* 



* The reader will find the National Geographic 

 Society's new Map of the World, issued as a 

 supplement to this number of the Magazine, 

 invaluable in following the itinerary of the 

 Carnegie as described by the author. 



Our stay at any one place rarely exceeded 

 three or four weeks. 



THE FIRST GUMPSE OF THE MIDNIGHT 



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Hammerfest, Norway, was the first 

 port reached after leaving New York in 

 June, 1 9 14. The 4,152 miles between 

 these ports were covered in 24 days, giv- 

 ing an average of 170 miles per day, the 

 highest ever reached by the Carnegie. 



We were in latitudes of continuous 

 daylight from June 24 to August 13, the 

 sun never disappearing below the horizon, 

 but frequently being obscured by cloud 

 or fog, making navigation somewhat diffi- 

 cult and dangerous as we crossed the ice- 

 berg region off Newfoundland. 



When we arrived off the entrance to 

 Soro Sund, ready to make port and sail 

 up to Hammerfest, we encountered a 

 heavy gale and were tossed about by 

 mountainous seas, beginning a habit which 



