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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



THE CARNEGIE IS HOVE TO 



Photograph by J. P. Ault 

 IN A HEAVY SEA 



The huge waves pile up, but the smoking crests are flattened and scattered by the force of 



the wind. 



We finally had to go on our way without 

 seeing the cook again. 



The Carnegie passed through the Pan- 

 ama Canal early in April, 191 5, just be- 

 fore a landslide in Gaillard Cut stopped 

 all traffic for several months. 



THROUGH SEAS TEEMING WITH BARNA- 

 CLES, EEYING PISH, AND BONITO 



In the middle of the North Pacific 

 Ocean, while en route for Dutch Harbor, 

 for four days the vessel was passing 

 through fields of barnacle clusters, ex- 

 tending as far as the eye could see in all 

 directions. The tiny barnacles attach 

 themselves to the small floating organism 

 called the velella, a relative of the Portu- 

 guese man-of-w r ar, and gradually grow 

 and envelop it until a large cluster nearly 

 12 inches in diameter results. 



After passing through these barnacle 

 clusters, we were for several days pass- 

 ing through similar immense numbers of 

 the velella. Occasionally, during calms, 

 sharks, some of them 11 feet in length, 

 were caught, and the small, brightly col- 

 ored pilot-fish, which usually swam a 



little in advance of and directly above the 

 shark's head, would dart wildly here and 

 there trying to find its lost companion. 



The flights of flying fish provide inter- 

 esting material for study and speculation. 

 These fish range in size from a few inches 

 to nearly two feet in length, and the 

 wing shape and size are quite varied. 

 Some cannot maintain flight beyond the 

 distance which their momentum gives 

 them ; others continue by dropping the 

 tail into the water and giving it a few 

 quick twists, while others continue flight 

 for some time, changing direction and 

 going much farther than momentum 

 would carry them. The actual vibration 

 of the wing fins has been seen frequently 

 by several observers. 



Often we have seen the bonito, or 

 Spanish mackerel, pursue and seize the 

 flying fish even in mid-air, and again 

 some fish would escape its enemy below 

 the water only to be picked out of the air 

 by the gannet-bird swooping down from 

 above. 



Occasionally schools of porpoises vis- 

 ited the vessel, playing about the bow, 



