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The Presidential Cruise of 1938 
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Some of the best game fishing in the workd 13 to be found off the 
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west c<ast of the Americas. So prolific and interesting is the marine life 
of this part of the Pacific that on my third cruise in these waters, which 
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ver was to include a visit to the Galapagos Islands, I thought it would 
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not be inappropriate to combine * ! business’* with pleasure and go fishing for 
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science and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as for sport. 
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So "fishing 1 in the most comprehensive manner became the order of 
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the day luring the glorious three weeks a&d three days that the cruise lasted,. 
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Hot only were fish sought for sport and $01 one e , ^jpu 
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scientific collecting was undertake*, including bird hunting and totalising, 
dredging ti depool and shore collecting, and all kinds of endeavor that might 
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yield something of interest to the Smithsonian Institution and our Fatlona 
om one could not have asked for more 
perfect weather, At notoriously wet and rainy Cocos Island, off the coast 
of Costa Rica, we struck a spell of more or less clear, sunny weather with 
little or no appreciable precipitation during the two end a half days we 
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seasonal rainfall might rv ! < 1 
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3ust before we anchored at Clipper ton I slan(Kierima®ripSBiHl» A approach- 
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