450	JEANNETTE INQUIRY.

Q. Exactly ; it is not a negative until it is developed.—A, As I understand it; I am not entirely up in that thing. Then he wanted several other pictures taken at one time or another, and Collins either did not want to take the pictures or was disagreeable about getting the pictures taken, and the captain asked me if I could take the pictures, I told him yes; I had looked some into photography. I had had a camera and apparatus of my own when I was in Brazil ; a little amateur affair. I can take pictures, but they would not be artistic pictures. So he set me to work and I took quite a number of pictures. As long as I had the Beachy developer I got plates that would look well enough to make pictures here in the United States, but with the American plates there was no developer or material to make a developer of. We had the dry-plate process.
By Mr. ARNoux:
Q. You mean by that that it was neglected to be supplied I—A. Yes; neglected to be supplied. I spoke to De Long about it. He spoke to Collins about it, and Collins told him there was no developer provided for those plates. But we did not use all of our Beachy plates before we came out. So that was the cause of the taking away of the photo-graphic apparatus, and the other was the breaking of the instruments one time and another. But I do not know of any of the other instruments being taken away from Collins. When we first got into the ice and set up the observatory temporarily Collins did set up the dip circle. Now De Long supposed there was a magnetometer aboard the ship, but when he came to examine the stores Mr. Collins brought him a little current meter which simply shows the current of electricity passing through a wire. Captain De Long was very much disgusted when he got this little electrometer instead of a magnetometer or large magnetic electric instrument, and I heard Collins and De Long have some words about that, but I do not know why that instrument was not gotten. De Long told Collins he had put this article in his hands to pick out and instead of getting this large magnetometer he had got this little current meter, and De Long got out a pamphlet of instruments and showed Mr. Collins the instrument he wanted; that he supposed this was the instrument Collins was buying. This instrument Collins bought would cost about a dollar and a half and the other one De Long wanted would cost $450. De Long said if they got to a place where the current should be tried it could not be tried with this little thing of no value. That was none of my business, and I did not pay much attention to it.
Q. You commenced to tell about taking observations on the ice. will you complete that I—A. Well, when we set up the observatory Collins set up the dip circle in one position on the table, and he cautioned the people coming in there not to disturb it because he had set it in magnetic meridian. I had read about all these things thoroughly while aboard the ship, and can use any of those instruments from what I learned there. Captain De Long told Collins to take the instrument away ; it was of no value the way it was set up, and I do not know whether it was removed at that time, but about that time the ice broke up and we had to remove all the instruments from the observatory and take them on the ship. Now, to take a proper series of observations from a dip-needle it is necessary to set the instrument up exactly due north and south and read its bearings; turn the instrument exactly the other way on a due north and south line and read the bearings; turn it east and west and read to the southward, and so on all the wag