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8 



w For all his knowledge of life and love among the 

 billfish Luis Rivas is not an experienced angler. At a 

 laboratory or in a classroom or simply across a lunch- 

 eon table, Luis could describe big-game fish so well that 

 one would have thought he had captured Bosco himself. 

 Aboard a boat, Luis was somewhat less assured. 



What with the albacora gone and the two penguins 

 returned to the cave and our day fading off in the west, 

 I decided that prodding Luis would help pass some of 

 the hours that still remained before we reached the har- 

 bor of Pisagua. Besides, it was almost dinnertime and 

 only a prompt diversionary action would put off my 

 having to prepare food until we reached port. Then, I 

 hoped, the boys would give me a hand as I knew there 

 would be no restaurant in primitive Pisagua. 



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