The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-18
ALBATROss SUCCESSFUL TRIP TO
KAUAI
Seas Around That Island Prove Prolific
And Several New Specimens Are
Secured.

It
steamer Albatross arrived from Kauai
this morning after an eight days trip
that proved to be the most successful
yet taken by the scientists. The Alba
tross docked shortly before the Sierra
was sighted off WaimanalO, bringing
Or. David Starr Jordan here on his way
to Samoa. The AlbatIoss will start out
again tomorow, returning probably to
Kauai on a second expedition.
Officers and scientists are enthusiastic
over Kauai, claiming it to be the best
island of the group for scenery and de-
lightful surroundings. The ichthyolO-
gists have come back with jars innume-
rabe filled with speciments, many Of
them new, ranging from tiny infusioriae
through jelly fish to the larger varie-
ties of fish proper.
Among the prizes is one variety or
pediculate fish of a species sometimes
called the bat fish from the wide
spreading gills armed with a little claw
like fin at the tip like the hook at the
end of q bats wing; sometimes the
Kangaroo fish from the similarity of its
two ventral fins to the feet of the big
| jumping rat of Australasia.
There is a delicate glass sponge from
| 73S fathOms, a skeleton web spun appa-
rently from glass threads. A crimson
clotted jelly fish, fringed with dangling
| tentacles, brought up in a state of ex-
| Cellent preservation from a depth of
! half mile and a thin blackish grey
| tapering fish with a buffalo hump on
| its back, looking like an attenuated
! bible backed herring, brought up from
| the lowest depths.
! Deep sea star fish with long slender
| fingers, living coral from the deeps
with the polyps still alive and working
! the master masons Of the sea, while en-
twined among the stiff branching coral
stalks an organism like a white sea
worm has coiled for protection. Every
polyp is armed with tiny spines and tht
writhing serpent shape is secure from
all it's enemies. The rat-tailed fishes
from the lower levels, deep sea dos
fish with an ugly looking head ant
mouth and sharp spines in front of it!
dOrsal fins. A tiny sea porcupine barely
a quarter on an inch in diameter, a lit
tie Pegasus fish with horse like heaC
and wing like fins. spotted butterfly
fashion. Tiny sword FISH, half an incl
of sword and FIVE eighths of an inch o
body, ghost fishes, fishes with lumi
nous patches on their sides, sea horse
and queer fishes with bat like head
and bony protuberances sticking Ou
NJ stle horned gargpyles 9f , I1ed4epH
cathedral.
tiny flying fish shows the barbule
bil It's lONtl Jaw llldl ulSdDDtdE VIII
age and increasing size. A hundred lit
tie fishes from the surface, all parti
colored with primal hues present in
finite variety of shape and fin, with
thousand mysteries Of the reasons q
this or that peCuliarity developed 4
Natures school to fit the particula
? wants of each creature. here a disguls,
there spiny surface that acts as a
armor ana deties the hungriest palate
here a delicate straining apparatus 70
, food or oxygen, there an abnorma
swimming bladder or fins developed
= carry the fish into the air to escape It
, pursuers.
Sea soup" thick gelatinous floatin
mass of organisms analogous
shrimps and looking like red vermicel
soup was encountered and some ladels
!. ful retained.
The return was made in order to met
: DR.. Jordan who passes through here &
: day and a fresh start win be made tC
. morrow. DR.. Gilbert found the coast
y Kauai not only more prolific of sea Iii
but less dangerous to his nets. lie.
coral was discovered, while the sc
: seemed to drop more directly into II
a depths. The lava rocks too were al
parently smoother although the doct,
+ lays the blame of destruction more 81
i, verely upon the coral than the Lax
n rocks.
Nothing was seen of the Fannie Ke
derelict by the Albatross. The rescu,
: boats We're seen riding at anchor bl
: the general course of the Albatross WI
, too far to the westward to have bee
- in the probable path Of the burning HI
even If the latter were still ailoat.