Word: noma
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Expedition. The book is a chronicle of the Harrison Williams Expedition in the Spring of 1923. Williams is the Cleveland -New York public utilities capitalist who financed the expedition and donated the Noma, his luxurious 250-foot steam yacht. He went along. Beebe was director of scientific work. Dr. William Morton Wheeler, distinguished Harvard entomologist, was a member of the party. There was also a physician and a surgeon, a game-fisher, a curator of dredging and diving, a chief hunter, a marine artist, a photographer and cinematographer (John Tee-Van) a preparateur, a taxidermist, a scientific artist...
...limited a time at its objective. The reader soon learns why. The Galápagos are all but uninhabitable. There is little or no water to be had on the islands. Water both for the boilers and for drinking and personal use had to be carried along. The Noma watered and coaled at Panama, sailed for the Galápagos, 800 miles away, and was able to stay only three weeks. It had to return to Panama for the essentials, and then came back for another nine days...