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Although we did not get the nuptial dance of the albatross filmed 
as we had hoped, we got enough scratches, slips on rocks, and falls to im- 
press this day on Hood indelibly on our memories. 
Tired as we were (it was a two-hour hike each way), the electric 
light lure was used off the gangway again about 11:00 p.m., but without any 
startling results. A few larval fish, a tiny pomacentrid or demoiselle, 
and 
Azurina eupalo ma . / several tiny shrimp and crab larvae made up our slender 
catch. Perhaps we were anchored a bit too far off shore. 
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im Perhaps we werejmchored a hit too far 
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V I * TChile seeking a suitable place to lg 
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and^this morning, our launch 
was picked up by a school of porpoises * They were having a most lively time 
and certainly felt full of pep, for not only did they streak along in front 
of us, but every little while one or another, sometimes one after another, 
or two or more together, would give a most astonishing leap skywards and, 
turning over sideways, would plummet back into the sea* The performance 
was certainly nothing else than sheer exuberance of spirits* It yielded 
some wonderful photographs, of which Thompson got several with his reflex 
camera* There 1 s nothing that can take the place of a camera of that type 
when it comes to real action pictures* 
We left Hood Island a little before six o’clock the next morning* 
July 29* South Seymour Island* 
Anchored to southward of passage between island and adjacent Inde- 
fatigable Island in 38 fathoms of water. The fishing parties made a circuit 
of the Daphnes, major and minor, but with little to show in the way of fish 
on their return from that excursion* No better luck was had on the east 
side of South Seymour* Yet, when the day’s fishing was totaled up, a lot of 
groupers had been caught, several yellowfin tuna, three southern barracudas, 
two black skipjack, a Pacific amber jack, two round^her rings, Etrumeus micro-pus . 
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