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by law and the law drastically enforced! It is possible that the dogs and 
cats may serve to keep the introduced ship rats in check, but the latter 
also should be destroyed. The sooner the islands are turned into a well 
protected, carefully patrolled and administered wild life reserve, the better. 
Left at half past two for Gardner Bay, Hood Island, where the ship 
anchored at 6:00 n.m. 
July 28. Hood Island all day. 
Another good fishing ground. Mr. Adams landed a 46-lb. yellowfin 
tuna. Col. Watson a 42-lb. wahoo. Wahoos are about as game as any fish in 
the sea. They always put up a good fight. Groupers, as elsewhere in the 
Galapagos, were caught in greater numbers than any other one species. Here 
at Hood there were also a number of yellowfin tuna. Four wahoo were taken in 
all, as well as two each of Pacific amberjack, false albacore, and southern 
barracuda, and one black skipjack. In the course of an afternoon of bottom 
cuActil'io* To 
fishing, the President's boat A m. 1 intai other fish, brought back two very 
beaut i ful Ho lacanthus -passer , caught by Mr. Early. We called them 
Pacific rock beauties chiefly because of their resemblance to the rock beauty 
of the Atlantic. 
About a dozen deep red southern creole fish, Par ant hi as furcifer . 
them 
were gotten by the President. We kept/alive in a tub over night for color 
photographing in the morning. Their upper sides had a row of five or six 
distantly spaced light blue spots, so bright they almost appeared luminous. 
The surf on shore near the famed albatross colony was so heavy 
that it was impossible to land within any reasonable distance, so, landing 
on the south side of Gardner Bay, we undertook an overland trek to the 
rookery. It was quite an ordeal, for though there were many open leads 
