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July 25 . 15n route Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, Galapagos. 
Left Sul Ivan Bay at 6 . 5 S a.m. King Heptune came aboard a little 
before nine o’clock and then the fun began. As Ihis "stupendous" affair, 
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colorful spectacle that it was, rates a book and could not be don© justice 
in these few lines. 
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beyond compare the grandest of six round trips across the Line. The Senior 
Shellback saw the whole thing through from the start to the finish, about 
2.30 p.ro. During that time some four hundred pollywogs were given the 
works. 
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July 26 . ' ck-H 
Refueled our convoy, the McDougal , this morning.^ Got under way 
shortly after 10 a.m. and, passing around Harborough to the westward, 
anchored in Elisabeth Bay at about half past two. The fishing here was 
much like that at Tagus Cove, and returned some of the largest sierra 
mackerel so far taken. Groupers are omnipresent and need no encouragement 
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to take the hook. They were- abundanty[at all places /and I at all time) 
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in shore % landing party captured a sea turtle; inv erteb rates were 
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end o di^o b tai iaed:fd^ cbTimy^sbrtw^9BTer-T»eenW Left at 0.23 p.m. 
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for Post Office Bay, Charles Island, 
July 27. Charles Island, 
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toe honed off Post Office Bay at about half past seven i ir-th e morn- 
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ing. Joined volunteer party of about 50 under Captain^Callaghan which landed 
at the behest of the President to take/generous lot of supplies to the Wittmer 
family. On the way collected .sussir plants a g -we m s in flower, and seeds and 
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fruit of tF$3Ske past flowering. 5^7ect^c H5 £p 
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