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speak English, told him that originally there was a large mass of it, but that 
so many visiting vessels had helped themselves to it that there was very 
little left and he expected that the rest of it would soon be gone, too. 
August 7 & 8. Enroute Pensacola, 11 50 miles northward. 
A lot of packing of gear and specimens attended to. 
No member of any of the collecting parties suffered any serious 
casualties. Jones, coxswain of our launch, got such a bad case of sunburn 
the day at Hood that he was confined to the sick bay for several days. R. B. 
Thompson, the photographer, succumbed to swollen ankles from too much stren- 
uous hiking over Hood Island and up and down Cocos and was laid up for a 
short time. I suffered a bit of the same trouble, but dodged the doctor, and 
it soon passed off. 
August 9» 
Anchored off Naval Air Station at Pensacola at 1:30 p.m. The 
President left the ship at five o’clock. The matter of getting some 500 
pounds of frozen fish and all my other specimens and impedimenta safely on 
their way to Washington necessitated putting off my departure until the next 
afternoon. 
August 10. 
Left Pensacola at 1:30 p.m. Re-dry-iced fish at midnight at 
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Atlanta and, because the job took some time to do right, almost got trapped 
in the baggage car, from which there would have been no escape for several 
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