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Outbound we headed for Taapuna Pass in order to investigate 
an area of very luxuriant marine growth sea\fard of the home 
occiipied by Mrs. Stephen Phillips of Salem, Massachusetts, her 
three young daughters, and, of all people, Margaret Tit comb, 
librarian of the Bishop Museum, knovm to every s^cientist of 
^ver* 
?/hatever calling who visited Honolulu. She had come down on 
the "Mariposaf^ with the Phillipses, whose good friend she Y/as . 
Mr. Phillips was to join his family later, and, being close 
friends of the McConnaugheys, they ¥/ere to take over the 
"Mareva” for a cruise to the Marquesas when v/e were through with her 
her 
The section of the reef/-td^fe Mis. Phillips wanted - us . tO ' sec- 
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v/as literally carpeted with hundreds of large sea anemones, abife g fct 
six inches across v/hen fully expanded. Intermixed were a host of 
other sessile e - oolcaaterat s ^ hydroids, seafans, a nd fleshy corals, 

A great variety of shells were either sitting on or raovThg^over>^ 
the and rock bottom. Colorful_f ish v^ere flitting 
ClKct X^V^Qr-e w 
, 1 undoubtedly /many mors cruslaceans/than the 
few craos and shrimps we were able to spot. With great reluctance 
we left this happy hmtlng ground, but we had on our way. 
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evening 
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5:30«the "Ivlareva” began rolling 
andy^n through the night, 
heavily and our tank chests started straining at their lashings. 
Before we could do anything about it, an eight-gallon tank full 
of ou^eserve formalin, that had somehow failed to be lashed tojj^ 
( u^orse , 
ae lid had not 
the others, ire.z on it‘s side, -fe -addlti 
been fastened securelj^ase^-^jj an instant some gallons of that 
