July [June] 20. Saturday. 
Breakfast fruit juice K1 & breakfast food 
Hot cakes and syrup. 
No coffee- Skipped lunch 
Dinner: Salad (?apples.) with lots of raisins, 
hashed fried potatoes; meat loaf, vegetable? 
Cold cocoa 
Coffee is taken by boys on watch all through 
day & night. 
190 tons = $2100 per man. 3 weeks cruise due 
to present high prices during war[?] 
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Joke 
"Store was so crowded that when I reached 
around to scratch my back, three girls slapped 
my face." 
Get so tired lifting fish, wet with salt water, 
gets to burn them under arms, a little leather 
apron for pole rest, chafes legs; have to keep 
going. And passing fish back to hold is 
back-breaking like larger fish for 
sort [illegible— water smeared] 
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Off Albermarle Pt. & over to Redondo Rk 
good RK. 
Between Revillageados and V ? Rock 90 
tons in 2 hrs. 
Down toward where Banks Bay enters Tagus 
channel, some remarkable hauls. Malpelo 
several boats filled up at one time. 
A/ Wahoo’s dangerous to pick up. One man 
had throat badly cut. One of men aboard here 
was bitten across base of thumb 
& has a bad scar to show for it, because when 
he put a strain on it, it tends to break open, in 
spite of fact he tapes it. 
Got awfully tired when rish run well one 
time in Galapagos got such large tuna, 
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June 21 Sunday 
Rain squalls all last night & this mor nin g. 
Quite rough last night lot of sliding around in 
bunk. Everybody was yawning and sleepy all 
morning as result. Some heavy rains here at 
10.30 it’s raining again. One doesn’t have time 
to get up and down from room dry between 
showers. 
Put 4 poles on, use live bait with large fish, 
because if ball strikes fish they tend to go 
down (disappear) with bait wait for fish to 
hooks. Give men rest of backs to [?] 
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[With] Little fish [you] have to stoop too much 
& often. But big fish are so hard to lift with 
poles. When one line of 4 poles breaks fish 
gets away. Salvatore says he likes 15-20 lb. fish 
for pole fishing goes quick and easy. 
One time off Revillegagados (bet them and 
Consaq Rock) got 125 tons any day, but lost a 
man over board & would have made more but 
for time lost looking for him. Was so tired 
probably went right down. Wear boots but 
with exhaustion is just too much. 
June 21/42 Sunday 
Roast chicken; mashed potatoes, bread butter 
gravy turnips, cold cocoa. 
Little Ecuadorian "pooch" picked up at 
Salinas. Eats everything including soap, licks 
and nibbles at nails in deck grating. Very fond 
of cook who reciprocates affection. 
Malpelo 
Endeavor 300 tones at Malpelo just about 
time war started when call went out beat if for 
home. 
Liberty was all set to head south at time; had 
to unload everything even medicine chest; 
later was asking why didn’t leave on stuff. 
Orig was told to move stuff 
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