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July 16. 193S 
Left Saji 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* 
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July 17* Cedros Island, -Sf-f© miles sout. 
sir Sca* . 
A.t S:bO a.m, anchored off the east side* The President received a 
visit from Captain Roberto Comez Maguro and Commandante Mayana of M^iccm WctvV 
bearing 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, including 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 the day's catch 
were California yellowtail, rock, kelp, and sand bass, black sea bass, and ©ceavj 
white fish. Heaviest fish taken by boats, a 30 lfc* yellowtail 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 inverte- 
brates, chiefly Crustacea and mollusks. For the promise of a s® 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 windJ 
Earthworms were found fairly high up on a coarse gravel beach under piles of 
drifted, rotting kelp. Numerous amphipods were secured, along with the worms* 
c Fleeter shells 
Several fossick were picked out of an outcrop near our landing place 
Left Cedros 7 p*m* 'for M 1 2 u 3 c\y 
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320 W ,les 4arfker 
