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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



THE RICKETY LANDING STAGE IN WRECK BAY, SAN CRISTOBAL, OE THE GALAPAGOS 

 GROUP, THE "ASH-HEAP" OE THE PAClElC 



One of the crew of the Dream Ship in a dinghy is completing the job of transferring 300 

 gallons of doubtful-looking fluid from the beach reservoir to the vessel by means of kerosene 

 tins. This water was transformed into an "aquarium" of energetic animalculae before the 

 ship reached the Marquesas Islands (see text, page 30). 



Photographs by Ralph Stock 



'dad/' who holds the skcret oe hidden treasure among the 

 galapagos islands (ske text, page 2j) 



