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landed a tang with vertical black stripes, a puffer, and three handsome blue 
trigger fish. These last were schooling near the surface with quite a number 
of others of their kind, and so attracted Ms attention by their apparently 
unusual behavior. The used was a bit of the skin of one of the fish 
taken a short while before./^ The landing party brought bock two noways and a >,« 
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tiny wrasse too young to identify. 
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July 22 and 23 . Snroute to the Galapagos Islands 
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Two busy days at sea for the whole ship's company getting ready 
for the Heptune party which would usher us over the Hney&nd get ting a 
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lot of preliminary stunts to which all and sundry pollywogs were subjected 
as a foretaste of what was yet to 4 come$ poor devils!* 
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July ?4. Tower Island, Galapagos/^ roS^s^s out sy0$wc>T v — \ . J • 
Anchored south of the entrance to Darwin Bay in 3^ fathoms, but as 
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it was too cough for fishing we got sunder way^tt 11.14 &.»., following the 
morning chapel service, for full van Bay, James Island, where the night was 
spent after coming to anchor at 2.4o p.m. Three hours of excellent fishing 
were enjoyed here by the President and members of Ms party. Groupers were 
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taken in plenty. One was a golden grouper of IS pounds, taken by Mr.^Karl; 
There was also a false albacore in the afternoon's catch number of sierra 
mackerel and 3 ® 3 riasw£iad yellowfin tuna, the first of these taken on this 
cruise, k turn at bottom fishing by the President yielded fr»w a number of 
specimens of two species of demoiselles. Ashore, the dried skeleton of a 
comet-fish was picked up, while a search of the tidepools here 
yielded several small, young sea bass, a host of juvenile sergeant-majors, 
gobies, eight little rock fish, and about fifteen pilot fish, Sovdi so don 
freminvillol. new to the Museum's collection. 
