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exponents have been ladies, as Mrs. Bartlett, wife 

 of Dean Bartlett of the Manila Pro-Cathedral, 

 who has taken fishes at Catalina up to thirty or 

 forty pounds, playing them with grace and 

 cleverness on this whip of a rod and thread-like 

 tackle. 



The island of San Clemen te can be reached 

 easily from San Diego, about eighty miles to 

 the west, but it is only eighteen miles from 

 Avalon, the outfitting point at Santa Catalina 

 Island, and fifty miles from San Pedro, the port 

 of Los Angeles. It is necessary to go in large 

 launches with sleeping accommodations, as the 

 region is treacherous, and landing not allowed 

 without permission from the lessee of the island, 

 Mr. Rowland, who has stocked the barren lava 

 flow with sheep, this having been the use to which 

 it has been put for the last thirty or more years. 



How long the waters about San Clemente have 

 been fished is not known. Perhaps for ages, as 

 it was discovered by Cabrillo, and again by Vis- 

 caino, in 1645, who named it after Saint Clement, 

 the saint, as it chanced, of that particular day 

 of happy discovery. Both of these adventurous 

 lieutenants of Cortez found the island inhabited. 

 That it has supported a large and vigorous 

 population for years is well shown by the shells, 

 skeletons, mortars, pestles, and other objects 

 that are scattered about, hither and yon, and 

 the tons of stone implements that have been 



