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all the little Peruvian boys and girls looking on from the mole. 

 They clapped, cheered and yelled ^^Macanudo/'^— my favorite 

 word in South America, meaning "You're the tops." These 

 Peruvians from the smallest and poorest to the biggest and 

 richest are courteous and kindly folk. This fish weighed 701 

 pounds and I went down to Talara feeling like a new man. 

 The following morning I attended eight o'clock mass and 

 came back up to fish, getting out around 10:00 o'clock. We 

 cruised around looking for that tail of all tails and around 

 two o'clock sighted a fish and caught him. He weighed 650 

 pounds. Around four o'clock I sighted another but he 

 wouldn't strike. At this point I would have gone to church 

 on Monday if there had been a service. 



I came back up again for my last day's fishing before leav- 

 ing for the United States, and around three that afternoon 

 hooked and boated another fish after forty-five minutes. This 

 weighed 725 pounds. And then, believe it or not, I had 

 another fish on for about a 100-yard dash shortly afterward. 



Three black marlin and four strikes in three days. It was 

 pretty good compensation for what I had had to suffer. A 

 week later the finest news I ever received reached me in the 

 form of a cable relating that Glassell had taken a 1025-pound 

 black marlin— the first fish ever caught to weigh over a thou- 

 sand pounds. 



Cabo Blanco was not fished again until late July, as I have 

 already stated. On August 3 Tom Bates broke Glassell's 

 record with a beautiful fish weighing 1060 pounds, caught 

 after a hard hour-and-fifty-five-minute fight in a rough sea. 

 No one deserved the new record more than this fine sports- 

 man. Bates has done a great deal of work in behalf of the club 



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