VITIAZ data file contains data of the world cruise of
the Russian ship "Vitiaz" for 1886-1889.
     All data are from the book S.O.Makarov "Vitiaz and
Pacific Ocean", Saint-Petersburg, 1894.
     Each observation is represented as one symbol line.
The length of the line is 36 symbols.
     The format of the line is the following:
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 #   Variable        Positions     True         Comment 
                                   value
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 1   Year                 1-4     1886-1890
 2   Month                5-6
 3   Date                 7-8
 4   Hours                9-10
 5   Minutes              11-12 
 6   Time of day          13        a,p     a-before noon(0-11 hour)
                                            p-after noon(12-23 hour)
 7   Degrees of latitude  14-15
 8   Minutes of latitude  16-17
 9   Sign of latitude     18        s,n     s-south latitude
                                            n-north latitude
10   Degrees of longitude 19-21
11   Minutes of longitude 22-23
12   Sign of longitude    24        e,w     e-east longitude
                                            w-west longitude 
13   Sea surface          25-27             degrees centigrate x 10
     temperature
14   Air temperature      28-31             degrees centigrate x 10
15   Wind direction       32-34   s,n,w,e   s-south, n-north
                                            e-east,  w-west
16   Speed of wind        35-36     0-10    Scale of Bofort        
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