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landed a tang with vertical black stripes, a puffer, and three handsome blue 
trigger fish. These last were schooling near the surface with quite a number 
of others of their kind, and so, attracted his attention b,v their apparently 
bait 
unusual behavior. The used was a bit of the skin of one of the fish 
..Of fish 
taken a short while before 
tiny wrasse too young to identify 
e.^^he landing party brought ba ck two morays and a lso 
«sb v Cco-ry^^' 
roidL/| 
aae*'’ 
Meli 
^ ic b is fovKo( 
July 22 and 23« Enroute to the Galapagos TsTands^ ) in £ciST -Lnofies ano\ 
Hawaii, Qs well as Mexican 
Two busy days at sea for the whole sjalp's company^ get ting ready"\ Socorro 
Qi«( C left 
for the Neptune party which would usher us bver the Line and getting over al X’slo* ‘ 
y 
lot of oreliminary stunts to which all and sundry pollywogs were subjected 
j,* 
as a foretaste of what was yet tq- come, poor devils 1 
12. I 3 oo Kiles 
July 24. Tower Island, Galapagos ^ mi les ^s out hw ard^f CT I i Q rfo n , 
lay in JO fathoms, but as 
Anchored south of the entrance to 
Darwin 
it was too rough for fishing we got under way at 11*14 a*m*, following the 
morning chapel service, for Suiivan Say, James Island, where the night was 
spent after coming to anchor at 2«40 p#m* Three hours of excellent fishing 
were enjoyed here by the President and members of his party* Groupers were 
taken in plenty* One was a golden grouper of 18 pounds, taken by Mr* Early* 
There was also a false albacore in the afternoon 1 s catcht^a number of sierra 
mackerel and jtKiiswiiua yellowfin tuna, the first of these taken on this 
cruise. A turn at bottom fishing by the President yielded testa a number of 
specimens of two species of demoiselles. Ashore, the dried skeleton of a 
cornet-fish was picked up, while a search of the tidepools tUNn i»»ii > |i llinl i» > 1111 1 
yielded several small, young sea bass, a host of juvenile sergeant majors, 
gobies, eight little rock fish, and about fifteen pilot fish, Doydi xc don 
freminvillei, new to the Museum's collection. 
