American Party to Study
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South Seas
SCIENTISTS, writers, travellers, and students are represented in a party of 18 Americans who left San Francisco re cently in the three-masted auxiliary yacht Exalted to study natives in seven South Sea Island Groups, including Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Pitcairn Island, and Easter Island.
Included on board are Dr. Bernard Jen sen, of Oakland, organiser of the cruise; Captain Oscar W. Schwarz, of the U.S.
Navy Department, who will cover the meteorological and hydrographic work; Mrs. Edith Shelton and Miss B. M. Har court, well-known American magazine writers; and Messrs. Robert McCarthy, William Hamilton, and Emil Jensen, graduates of California University.
The 132 ft. Exalted has a beam of 26ft., and was fitted at Seattle with Diesel en gines giving her a cruising range of
10,000 miles without refuelling. She car ries a crew of 10, under Captain Charles A. Watts, of Oakland.