. Challenger; the life of a survey ship. Challenger; Hydrographic surveying. ii6 CHALLENGER On this occasion they were left at one of the marks to observe in the early afternoon. It had been arranged that another survey party returning to the ship by boat would collect them before dark, but something went wrong with the planning and as night came on the two men could see no sign of a boat on the broad river. They climbed up to the cross spars and looked longingly at the distant twinkle of light which marked the ship at anchor some five miles downstream, The fall of night had made the crocodile
. Challenger; the life of a survey ship. Challenger; Hydrographic surveying. ii6 CHALLENGER On this occasion they were left at one of the marks to observe in the early afternoon. It had been arranged that another survey party returning to the ship by boat would collect them before dark, but something went wrong with the planning and as night came on the two men could see no sign of a boat on the broad river. They climbed up to the cross spars and looked longingly at the distant twinkle of light which marked the ship at anchor some five miles downstream, The fall of night had made the crocodiles very active and several were in the water directly beneath the. Trianpulation mark in the Gambia River mark. One lashed with his tail against one of the main spars and the whole structure shook terrifyingly. It grew bitterly cold, and to keep themselves warm, clad as they were in their tropical rig, they cut calico from the guys to wrap around themselves, and with rope from the mark they lashed themselves to the spars lest they should fall as sleep overtook them. Hours later, it seemed, they saw a finger of light searching the mangroves along the river bank. It was the rescue boat using her Aldis signal lamp to search for the lost surveyors. It was a happy moment for Paisley and his assistant when the light at last picked out the dazzling white of the mark against. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ritchie, G. S. (George Stephen), 1914-. New York, Abelard-Schuman
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