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CRUISE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
A short time after, when the dredge came up, it 
was found to contain the usual Globigerina ooze, and 
some specimens of coral and broken shell. On the 
26th, being about 85 miles north of St. Thomas, 
a sounding was made in the great depth of 3875 
fathoms; the dredge was lowered, and after some 
hours it was brought up with a considerable quantity 
of grey ooze, but no traces of animal life were 
detected. 
After evening quarters, the bell tolled, and all the 
ship’s company assembled to pay their last tribute to 
their late shipmate. The captain read the beautiful 
and appropriate service for a burial at sea, and on 
reaching that portion, “ We commit his body to the 
deep,” it was slid out of the port, wrapped in a ham- 
mock weighted with shot, into the bright blue tide, 
to be seen no more until that day when the sea shall 
give up its dead. 
For several days soundings showed an average 
depth of 2800 fathoms, with a red-clay bottom; this 
continued until within about 100 miles of Bermuda, 
when we again came upon the grey ooze. 
On the 3rd April land was in sight ; and as we 
approached the Bermudas, which are mere specks on 
the chart of the wide Atlantic, one is immediately 
struck with their somewhat dull and sombre aspect ; 
the land nowhere rising to a greater height than 
260 feet (where the lighthouse is situated), and by far 
the greater part not being more than from 25 to 50 
