The Total Eclipse of the Sun

Abstract

VIZIADURG, Monday, January 17. THE work is so incessant here from sunrise to midnight that I have not time to give anything like an adequate idea of our doings. I may say, however, that we have been here since last Saturday week, and everything is ready for the eclipse. We have now over 120 volunteers. Captain Chisholm-Batten has taken charge of the whole arrangement, and to me, an old eclipser, it is a beautiful thing to see the splendid drill which we have commenced in eclipse form, along all lines, to-day, going on to the sound of the bugle. The observers have been arranged into twenty-one parties as follows:—