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Diary, trip to Panam and Galapagos Ids., April, 1941. 
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^ Bad Jialpolo in plain sight this a*m., though hasy, 
Tcsrard nine o'clook took oouple of shots at it} at 9 *30 we got in launch to 
make circuit of island and fish. Sw tha old Hanoo<^ Expod. landing place to 
B.E. Toward southeast by cave saw moisture and mvse green algaei did most of 
our fishijig about H.W. point. Gapt. Pickens got a nice wahoo and a rainbow 
runner (I reaerabered it from th© Presidential cruise). Laing and Dr. Blanch 
got a Pacific Mber jack apieoei 
iaber jacks i 
got a Colorado grouper. 
1. Standard length S*6” » 46 lbs. All ll” for over all. 
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* 3 *4—1/2* * 40 lbs. Add 10" for over all 
3. Wahoo 44 inches 44" to base tail *• 20 Ihs- 
4. Rainbow runner 20“ “ 3-1/2 lbs. 
6* Colorado grouper, J^yct earoperoa olfax. 
dorsal «» 11 spines," 1 6 so'^^' rays' 
anal 3 “ 11 " " 
gill rakers, counting stalk, 16, 
Caught by apnest 
“ 12 lbs. 
Malpelo is very precipitous sided, well nigh inaccessible all aroiaid 
Saw our old (Banoook) landing, but w© could mt land; had no official permis- 
sion and besides no point to landing exnept I might have gotten a few speci- 
mens. Calm day, we could have landed had im had a mind to. Ho apparent vege- 
tation oth^ than liohenous growths her© and there; lot of apparently nesting 
gulls, mostly sjaall, of ^tlapagos species. Already mentioned one streak of 
moisture by oave near S.E,j had lot of bright green algae grovrbhs, but per- 
Imps only 20-30 foot streak, irregularly a few feet or inches wide in places. 
In a notch in larger islet to south, looked at from west, a single slender 
stalk of a plant, maybe 2-1/2 feet high, like stalk of one of our dead century 
