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river or Asiatic Gulf Stream, the Kuro-shiwo or The Black 

 *' Black Current," flows northward from the Philip- ^'''''''^ 

 pines, warmly drenching the east coast of Japan. 

 It then runs northeastward to the Aleutian Islands, 

 thence across to Sitka, losing its heat on the way 

 and bathing the shores in mist and rain. Next, 

 thoroughly cooled, it bends southward along the 

 Pacific Coast to Point Concepcion, reducing sum- 

 mer temperatures to a much lower point than that 

 of corresponding latitudes in the Atlantic or the 

 western Pacific, and thus bearing Northern forms 

 southward to Monterey and beyond. 



At San Luis Obispo we made the personal ac- Muiie- 

 quaintance of Millie-Christine, the ''Siamese Twins" <^^^'^'''«^ 

 of that epoch, two good-looking mulatto girls, 

 tragically bound together for life and death. Rela- 

 tively well educated, I may fairly say cultivated, 

 they were as distinct mentally as any pair of "identi- 

 cal twins," conversing together and with others in 

 the usual fashion. In San Luis Obispo, also, we at- 

 tended the performance of a clever magician whom I 

 mainly remember from his discomfiture next day when 

 he carelessly let slip his magic cane through a break 

 in the wharf. Attempting to hire some one to dive 

 for it, he was as helpless as any ordinary mortal. 



Later in March we came to Monterey. There, Monterey 

 in that former Spanish capital where some of the 

 old-timers were still living, we found much of in- 

 terest. It also furnished our best collecting ground. 

 In the search for material, we had the energetic 

 help of a Portuguese lad named Manuel Duarte, 

 now a flourishing local fish dealer. Among our 

 many experiences was a day with very low tide, 

 spent far out on the rocks beyond the Point of Pines, 



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