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and came moving along throng the grags. It vae pale blue in color, not 
lauch bigger than hand, and it apj^ared to have large brown eyes. As 
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I watched it turned green, and then brown. After taking some pictures 
of it I asked Tom to see if he could pick it up. The little octo didn’t 
care too much for this. Finally John, who was hovering nearby on his 
fins, came in with a net and took the little fellow up to the boat, 
later we saw another similar octopus on the coral boulders, more 
waiy than the first one. When I leturned to the boat Chris, who h^ 
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been reeling in and letting out the light cords, said he couldn’t keep 
the octopus in the bucket (we had nothing with a lid) and that it was 
down in the bottom of the boat — he thought. I thought differently. 
thought was that the second octopus probably was the same om. It 
had crawled up the side of the boat and leaped back into the water, 
wondering what in the dickens we were up to, and coming to the natural 
conclusion that we weren't to be trusted. 
July 21. Tuesday. Still there has been no report on the test film we 
eent in to the proceBSor last week# And the oas^ra hasn’t boon returned* 
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The only word I have had so far on the camera has come in a cable to 
the effect that if I did not possess a customs document on the camera I 
would have to pay forty dollars duty before the repair people could get it, 
I dispatched a letter at once with the inforEstlon that the camera had been 
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purchased in the U. S. sixteen years ago, had been through customs mny 
times, etc. All things conspire to slow one down sometimes. 
