CUKRENT PAPERS. 33 



1898 — October 12 current papers, greatest in one month. 

 1899— August 14 „ „ 



1900— February 14 „ „ 



List of current papers extracted from the following list because 

 they have been drifting for more than a year, the daily drift in 

 several of these papers is so small that there can, I think, be no 

 doubt they have been found long after they went ashore. It is. 

 an interesting and instructive list of twenty papers : — 



Number of 



the Current 



Paper. 



Number of 

 Days travelling 



Bate of 

 progress per 

 day in miles. 



Miles travelled 

 (direct). 



494 



743 



2-5 



1870 



498 



1403 



0-6 



830 



499 



1266 



0-2 



210 



508 



707 



8-7 



6150 



510 



528 



7-3 



3850 



517 



432 



34 



1475 



518 



383 



1-4 



540 



520 



690 



0-5 



329 



524 



487 



4-0 



1960 



525 



1447 



16 



2340 



527 



1195 



4-5 



5321 



536 



505 



03 



148 



538 



391 



2.3 



890 



548 



392 



20 



770 



550 



528 



10-1 



5350 



554 



406 



1-2 



470 



557 



422 



37 



1570 



571 



476 



24 



1037 



580 



687 



9-2 



6290 



583 



853 



7-3 



6250 



DRIFT OF THE S.S, " WAIKATO." 



The s.s. Waikato, just after passing the Cape of Good Hope, on 

 June 5, 1899, broke her main shaft, and from that time to Sep- 

 tember 15, drifted about in the Indian Ocean. There will be 

 found attached, a chart, shewing the various changes in direction 

 which the ship made in the interval. I desire to express here, 

 my very cordial thanks to Captain John M. Hart, for sending me 

 a copy of his log during that anxious period. Other steamers 

 may have to drift in the same waters, and the experience of the 

 Waikato may be useful to them. 



C— May. 1, 1901. 



