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&-8i30 a,a. , ashore, and started by 8:30 a«9« 
?fe had oik * shore ©xoursioB.. Woat over to beach Sve^ecy a#m* Got 
parties organised aad started amy froa shore about Six 8:30, Wsdked and 
haoked our way inland by a dewioua route, as w© idiought and hoped toward 
the ©rater ire had picked out fr« shore on Saturday afternoon and fro® ship 
as we were ooaiag in ia sub to Coway Bay or rather from boat approaching 
shore beoaus® we could only see it at eosae distaaoe away from land. It 
was impossible to keep to tbs right direction, a© it proved later we went 
*wa.y astray. Both la forenoon part of jaunt whioh lasted (with a few brief 
rests) till and later on our 2-bour continuation of journey, Aa I 
have oft«i ©aid each of tl'iese Gal apagos Islands I® a different kind of a 
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Hell, and the aortti side of Indefatigable, this side of first ridge doiOT to 
the shore. Is no exception and, sjoreover. Is otm of its own peculiar kind* 
The brush her© on Indefatigable seeaed j»rtloularly bad and abun- 
dant tod required pretty constant cutting (if not blaein^ to find our my 
back* Lava dykes much fractured, sam loose pieces wildi danger of turning 
anl-des most of the tlae* 
Going we out brush off of steep slopes unwittingly where it would 
have helped our return trip when descending these S:ai3e steep slopes. Climb- 
ing up steep "hillocks” or piles of lava (or lam djdces ,* seccaed easier and 
safer tlmn coming do®m— coais^ down there was always the dssnger of slipplr^ 
and being precipitated into a giant cactus of wMoh one always aeeiaed to 
stand next the host place for goi»^ and dowuj if not falling down the 
slope on to other rooks below, 
Thas© large Opuntias made grand landmarks when tip of pad was 
sliced off or if trunk was blazed cn t!i© side, I wonder how serious an 
Injury this is to a oaotus} or do they have ready powers of repair? Hear 
soon repaired, and if cutting may be done without great detriment to plant? 
