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expect to go back to the same place tomorrow for the other 

 tortoise, and more if we find them. 



March 19, 1906. — We went down the coast to the place 

 where we lost the boat. The tortoises come down to the 

 cactus trees about fifty to seventy-five yards from the bluffs, 

 and work around in the flat country near the coast. We found 

 three. Beck took two pictures of one of them. So far we 

 have brought all our Iguana Cove tortoises on board alive, 

 but I think we shall have to skin a large one tomorrow, and 

 put two over the cliffs into the sea and tow them to the ship. 

 King did not care to go with us today, our experience on 

 Saturday having been too much for him, so he went ashore at 

 Iguana Cove to hunt tortoises. He failed to find any signs 

 whatever. Hunter says he saw an old watering place about 

 seven hundred feet up the mountain, but the grass had grown 

 over all the trails, and there were no fresh signs of tortoises 

 anywhere. The tortoises taken have numerous blood-sucking 

 ticks along the cracks between the plastral plates. 



March 20, 1906. — Went down the coast to get the tortoises 

 we have tied up. We put them all off into the sea and towed 

 them to the ship. Two of them were badly battered up by the 

 surf. We had to lower them over the cliffs with ropes and 

 let them drift out to the boat. Beck took several pictures of 

 the operation. It took up about the whole day. One of the 

 tortoises that came floating by on Sunday morning died the 

 night of the 19th of the injuries it had received. Its stomach 

 contained cactus and grass. We expect to sail tomorrow, as 

 the place is rather dangerous to anchor, and all hands will feel 

 safer out of here. 



March 21, 1906. — Worked on board all day, skinning two 

 tortoises that died from injuries received in collecting them. 

 We sailed for Narborough at 10 :30 a. m. 



