I all surfao© aarkings of Ita Cowan graw ha's© now dis- 
appeared or bem oovered up by the years of aoouEEiiulatioa of soil, rook, and 
vegetable debris. Meanwhile, Captain Laing thought he imd irtainr disoovered 
an artificial mound of lava boulders* Bverybody went o’fer to inspect it at 
east (north) end of ioniBk. beach on high gromid ba<& of boulder-fronted rocky 
shore, but it was soon agreed that it was a natural dyke or aouad* 
This night w© had an elaborate chowder party ashore aM, in ordm* 
to provide fish for it. Captain Picking, Freddy, and I went out in motor 
launch to ds f is Mag for it. This took us to mstward of Janes Bay past di^ 
§iiia gulch and waterfall, a round high split to jmrrow bight wiidi bn>im {m. 
close iaspeotion, red) sand beach . Here Captain and Freddy went in to land, 
taking me wi-tdi thm. This is a place Porter passed up because of surface and 
with Fred liesenhenae and I on one of the Hancock visits to James were afraid 
to taokle vfor tids sort of landing), I believe a dory is better than a skiff 
and when I rffis«aber the old illbatross days I bel lew the round bottomed affair 
we called a pram better yet. 
The open grassy slopes q£ tMs bight are a great gathering fround 
for burrows ai^ goats, Ss# 1* of former and several himdred goa.tsf smny with 
hind half white and front half red-brown* Also: -a couple of sea lions on 
beach} one little pup so tirin would oould see and coimt his ribs without 
difficulty, We got in and out logKyyxiii very nicely, tiiough it didn’t look 
any too ^.cod, but Fred and Captain counted ( and judged) tlie waves just right 
and we got out again as nicely as I liave anywhere. By the way, tMs and the 
Houston oruiee are the only ones down here m which 2 didn’t get dumped (boat 
sideways on in surf) and tuet at least once, 
the chowder jmrty was a grand affair— canned milk, fish, water, hard 
tack, potatoes, and seasoning, hot in great big pot; Imd three bowls of it. 
