While seeking a suitable place to land this morning, our launch 
was picked up hy a school of porpoises. They were having Anost 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, turn- 
ing over sideways, would plummet back into the sea* The pxf a performance 
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was nothing else tea* sheer exuberance of spirits^ yielded some wonder- 
ful photographs, of which Thompson got several with his reflex camera. There's 
nothing that can take the place of a camera of that type when it comes to 
real action pictures. 
