- This
morning we have grappled for and found another length of small
cable which Mr. - dropped in 100 fathoms of water. If this also
gets full of kinks, we shall probably have to cut it after 10 miles
or so, or more probably still it will part of its own free will or
weight.
'10 P.M. - This second length of three-wire cable soon got into the
same condition as its fellow - i.e. came up twenty kinks an hour -
and after seven miles were in, parted on the pulley over the bows
at one of the said kinks; during my watch again, but this time no
earthly power could have saved it. I had taken all manner of
precautions to prevent the end doing any damage when the smash
came, for come I knew it must. We now return to the six-wire
cable. As I sat watching the cable to-night, large phosphorescent
globes kept rolling from it and fading in the black water.
'29th.
'To-day we returned to the buoy we had left at the end of the six-
wire cable, and after much trouble from a series of tangles, got a
fair start at noon.
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