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Annotated itinerary of the cruise. 
July 16, 1938 
Left San Diego at 5 ; 30 p.m« The President's departure was an im- 
pressive one— the salutes and other formalities, the gaily decked ships, and 
the final homage of 21 guns from Fort Roscrans just before we swept out on to 
the broad expanse of the Pacific. 
July 17. Cedros Island, 285 miles south of San Diego. 
At 9 :^*0 a.m. anchored off the east side. The President received a 
visit from Captain Roberto Gomez Maguro and Commandante Mayana of the Mexican 
Navy, who bore the felicitations of the President of Mexico and his good 
wishes for a successful cruise. Chapel services in the forenoon. Fishing 
and shore collecting during the afternoon. The several fishing parties, in- 
cluding the President's boat, returned with a total of about thirty-seven 
fish. Meanwhile, the crew had been fishing over the side of the ship, chiefly 
with hand lines, and so got some 200 fish of various kinds. Represented in 
tne day's catch were California yellowtail, rock, kelp, and sand bass, black 
sea bass, and ocean white fish. Heaviest fish taken by boats, a yellow- 
tail which the President landed after a 15-minute battle; largest of the fish 
taken by the crew, a 120-lb. black sea bass landed on a 20— lb. test line after 
a good two-hour struggle. 
Shore party secured a representative series of littoral invertebrates, 
chiefly Crustacea and mollusks. For the promise of a bit of small change, the 
industrious assistance of a number of small urchins was had until the pay-off; 
a few nickels and dimes, and they were gone with the wind! Earthworms were 
found fairly high up on a coarse gravel beach under piles of drifted, rotting 
