DEEP-SEA DREDGING 27 



it passed clear of the ship. Our accumulator was of 

 the American pattern, and consisted of a row of thick 

 indiarubber disks held between iron guides. These 

 by their compression not only gave timely notice of 

 any sudden strain on the rope, but always tended to 

 keep the tension even. 



As we shall often be referring to the wonderful 

 jabberwocky " animals that the deep-sea trawl brings 

 up, our preliminary observations will have to be still 

 further prolonged, in order that we may form a rough 

 idea' of that strange other world beneath the waves 

 in which these animals pass their weird existence. 



