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Show The dark waters alongside are lit with a greenish glow. Aboard the Arcturus there is a bustle of preparation. Hurrying figures pass and repass before the lighted ports; there is a creak of blocks and a gleam of flashlights as davits are swung out and the small boats prepared. Oars thump in rowlocks, and parallel whorls of phosphorescence mark their progress prog-ress away from the ship. The Flashlight's Lure At a little distance they pause. The flashlights wink and creep upon the weed, or glisten on the heaving swells. Nets are dipped and emptied, bringing up strange small creatures and fantastic fishes, ' fascinated vby the lights. Microscopic algae are scooped up in millions and poured into receptacles, recep-tacles, to be studied and classified in the laboratories aboard the ship. ' For hours the work goes on. , Minute Mi-nute sea-horsrs, feathery and ragged rag-ged as the wce.d itself, are brought r : thick accumulation of floating seaweed sea-weed and other vegetation has formed there, as flotsam forms in the back waters of running streams. : This spot, generally northeast of the West Indies, is roughly bounded bound-ed by the latitudes 25 to 30 North and the longitudes 38 to 60 "West. A Little Known Field But of the actual teeming life which swarms in and about, above and below this matting of twisted plant growth all too little scientific scien-tific data are available. From tho zoological point of viow the Sargasso Sar-gasso Sea and the depths beneath it are almost virgin, territory. It is this field which the Arcturus and her little company of students have come tc explore. The sun sinks to the west, plunging plung-ing into the sea with a red flare and a burst of streamers across the sky. Almost at once the tropical darkness descends." Huge stars spring out in a sky like black velvet, pulsing and bluely white. brother, Kermit, will set sail on the Leviathian Saturday for South-channel South-channel for Marseilles and depart from London for Bombay before the end of the month. The Koosevelts will be?in their long trek in the Tamri mountains about the second week of May. i They will sen roll for tho Ovis I oli. 1 on almost extinct variety of long! horned sheep. ROOSEVELTS GO TO INDIA NEW YORK, Anril S. (UP) On the first loir of their bit; game hunt in Iiulijm wildernesses, Culmiel Theodore Roosevelt and his |