Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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They also play soccer extensively. Late getting aboard. Feet sore, but a good days collecting of high elevation stuff. Sunday, May 18, 1924. Spent day aboard Schooner; mending clothes, scraping sharks jaws, writing up notes; copying some of the place name and island data from MSS list prepared for Beck by W. S. Richmond etc. Looked over Mr. Beck's pictures and picked out a few the Museum would like to have prints of. Read a MS article on South Pacific by man interested in birds eyes, loaned Mr. Beck by Consul Roberts of Apia. Finding that it would not be possible to ascend the high peaks, because of lack of time made the following rough observations with sextant on heights of some of the principal peaks. The results do not check up very closely with the heights as given on the chart. It may be due to an error in method or because the positions given on the chart are not very accurate:- Formula h = d Tan O. Peak L of Elev. Dist. Miles Comp. Elev. Given Elev. Mauga silisili 8° 16' 8.3 6336' 6094' Mt. Teelegi 7° 07' 9.0 5933' 5904' Mt. Siope 7° 38' 8.3 5860' 5904' Small group of peaks nearly due west of Salarlua Bay 6° 45' (average) 5.7 3520' Summit reached yesterday 7° 48' 7.0 5088' (See p. 84 for more elevations). There seems to be some little discussion about the heights of the peaks. They vary in elevation from 5000 to 6000 feet for a maximum. The trouble is they are not accurately located and no one has tried other than the aggle