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fiSBB finally breaking free and taking lure and leader with him, but leaving 
the second fish still entangled in the line. It was this second sailfish that 
the President finally landed after a 20-minute combat. When it was gaffed and 
deposited in the motor launch it was found that the President's line was secured 
to its 'bill' or 'spear' with several round turns and half hitches; so, literal- 
ly, he was landed by the line alone — a remarkable piece of work, 11 Those who 
have seen the beak of the fish, which the President has saved with the knot 
or tangle of line in place, believe that this is the first time a good-sized 
sailfish or perhaps any sailfish has been landed in this manner. 
August 3« The last half day at Cocos. 
Mr. Adams got his sailfish this forenoon, and I got some color snaps 
of it. Yesterday the President brought back four remoras or sucker fish from 
sail fish which he had saved for the Museum. I got two more today from Mr. 
Adams' sailfish, along with two different species of external copepod parasites. 
Jack Earron, seaman first class, assigned to me as my assistant, 
went out dredging in Chatham Bay and. brought back several items of interest 
in spite of the rough going and coral heads that made dredging here a diffi- 
cult operation, ( a! 1 told, in about four half days of fishing, 16 sailfish 
were taken. A list of those taken by the President and other members of Ms 
party compiled by Captain Callaghan gives length and weight of six of them. 
Caught by 
Length 
Weight in lbs. 
The President 
9' 6" 
100 
Basil O'Connor 
01 gn 
105 
F. B. Adams 
9' 7" 
120 
Col. S. M. Watson 
10' 1-1/2" 
(he claims 2") 130 
Dr. Boss T. Mclntire 
9' 7-]/ 2" 
120-1/2 
Capt. D. J. Callaghan 
9* 7" 
99 
