H.M.S. Challenger — Shortening Sail to Sound. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
Fiji Islands to the New Hebrides Islands — Halobates — Api — The Macrnra — Raine Island — Cape York- 
Arrou Islands — Ki Island's — Banda Group. 
Fiji Islands to the New Hebrides. 
On the 11th August 1874, at 6 p.m., after swinging for magnetic purposes, the ship finally 
left the Fiji Islands, all sail being made to the westward. Mount Washington was in 
sight all day. 
On the 12th, at 6 A.M., a sounding, trawling, and temperatures were taken in 1350 
fathoms, at Station 175 (see Sheet 27). The trawl caught at the bottom, but was 
successfully cleared and brought to the surface at 3 p.m. 
On the 15th another sounding and serial temperatures were taken in 1450 fathoms. 
From the 11th to the 15th, wet changeable weather was experienced, the wind blowing 
chiefly from N.E., but never remaining steady. On the 13th the fore topgallant mast 
and flying jib-boom were carried away in a rain squall before sail could be shortened. 
The deposits at 1350 and 1450 fathoms were Globigerina oozes of a. reddish colour, 
closely resembling the red clays in that respect. They contained respectively 45 and 61 
per cent, of carbonate of lime, consisting of Rhabdoliths, Coccoliths, the shells of Globi- 
gerina, Orbulina, Hastigerina, Piilvinulina, Sjphceroidina, Pullenia, and some bottom- 
living species. A few of the Globigerina shells had still the delicate spines attached as in 
the specimens taken on the surface. The absence of Pteropod, Heteropod, and other pelagic 
Molluscan shells from these deposits is somewhat remarkable, for they were very abundant 
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