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dining facilities and sleeping accommodations in ten double 

 rooms with baths and showers. This commodious building 

 will be ready for occupancy coincident with the publication 

 of this book. 



Cabo Blanco is 3.3° south of the equator. Talara is 

 953 airline miles from the Panama Canal and 596 miles 

 north of Lima— a two-and-a-quarter hour flight in a Panagra 

 DC-6— and about 2100 miles from Miami. You can leave 

 Miami at 11 in the morning on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 

 arriving Talara at 9 that night, with a 45 -minute stop at 

 Panama and another 2 5 minutes at Guayaquil, and this flight 

 on the Tourist El Pacifico permits a ravishing view of the 

 sunset as you cross the equator. The other flight leaves Adiami 

 at 8 o'clock Sunday evening on Pan American's crack Inter- 

 Americano, with its excellent dinner and good berths, and 

 you arrive at Talara Monday morning about 4:45, with a 

 stop at Panama. It is also possible to go to Panama any day 

 and continue the flight down on Panagra 3 1 9, leaving Panama 

 every morning except Sunday, and this alternative gives one a 

 chance to see the beautiful Cordilleras and the great peaks of 

 Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, as well as those near Quito. 



The first problem we had was to select the type of boat 

 that we wanted to use for fishing. We knew we had skillful 

 commercial fishermen from among whom to choose our 

 crews at Cabo Blanco. We picked nine and they have never 

 let us down. Our first thought as to a boat was to have one 

 about 40 feet long with a beam of 1 2 feet. All of us knew 

 that it would be rough in the summer months and we wanted 

 boats big enough to carry a couple of thousand-pound fish. 

 Our first boat was constructed at Wedgeport with a Cape 



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