TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, JANUARY 22, 1898. 
IGL 
On the 5th January Sir Norman Lockyer gave a lecture, with illustration.s by 
lantern slides, on Eclipses in general, and afterwards volunteer observers were called 
for. All the officers, and over 100 men, gave in their names as volunteers for special 
work, or for general assistance. The same evening the sketching party were instructed 
and exercised, and daily afterwards. 
Friday, January 7. —-The party arrived at Uiziadrug. The Collector came on 
board, and on landing, the party selected a site, a piece of flat ground, the highest 
inside the old Castle, on which there wms plenty of room for the instruments (see 
Plan, Plate 4), and near which was the Traveller’s bungalow, built over the old 
powder magazine of the pirates, which was used as a dark room, mess room for the 
men, lecture room when lantern slides were required, and general resting-place, on 
account of its being cool and shaded. 
Saturday, January 8.—All instruments were landed, and a fair start made in 
setting them up, the leading hand of each party from the ship assisting at his own 
instrument or job. 
Instruction was carried out on board on the spectrum, in corona drawing, and on 
observing the colours of’the landscape. 
Sunday, January 9.—During Sunday the native workmen, masons, carpenters, 
and labourers provided by the Public Works Department of India, prepared cement 
foundations, shelter huts, and the site generally. 
Monday, January 10.—Good work was done in setting up the instruments, which 
were in place by the evening. Instruction was carried out on board on hand specti'o- 
scopes. 
A signal-house had been built, and a signal pole set up for communication with the 
ship. Larger parties every day were now required on shore for setting up gear, 
and for practice with it. As Viziadrug has the reputation of being a favourite place 
for snakes, men always landed in gaiters. The dark room for the British party was 
set up in the magazine, and one for Mr. Turner, the photographer, sent from 
Calcutta by the Government of India, was set up in a shady place close to the 
bungalow on his arrival on Tuesday. 
Tuesday, January 11.—Lectures on spectra colours, landscape, and corona drawings 
were given. 
Sir Norman Lockyer, Mr. Fowler, and Dr. Lockyer took up their quarters at 
Norman Castle. 
Wednesday, January 12.—Sketching corona, with discs, party were under instruc¬ 
tion, and the usual duties of various parties independently. 
Thursday, January 13.— Professor Pedler arrived, and found Ins telescope in 
place, and a party ready to assist him. 
In the evening, about five o’clock, tlm fii’st rehearsal took ] )lace of the parties ready. 
Instruction in colour of landscape, and corona sketching with discs, was carried out 
on this day. 
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