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Tired as we were (it was a two-hour hike each way), the electric 
light lure was used off the gangway again about 11 p.m. hut without any start- 
ling results. A few larval fish, a tiny pomacentrid or demoiselle, Azurina 
eupaloma , several tiny shrimp and crab larvae made up our slender catch. Per- 
s we were anchored a bit too far off shore. 
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(l <\. We left Hood Island a little before six o'clock the next morning. 
July 29 . South Seymour Island. 
Anchored to southward of passage between island and adjacent Inde- 
fatigable Island in 38 fathoms of water. The fishing parties made a circuit 
of the Daphnes, major and minor, but with little to show in the way of fish 
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on their return from that excursion. better luck was had on the 
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east side ot South Seymour. Yet, when the day 11 s fishing was totaled up, yl ' wrty 
of groupers had been caught, several yellowfin tuna, three southern barracudas, 
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two black skipjack, a Pacific amberjack, two round herrings, Et rumeus micropu s, 
which, by the way, pwwwwl new to the Museum collections, and a grunt. With 
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hand lines over the ship*s side the crew got several Galapagos sheepshead^j) 
ftLong shore a puffer, Sphaeroldes annula tus « was taken. The wind was a 
bit too high to render the electric light fishing 
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remained at anchor here over night 
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July James Say, James Island, Galapa^o 
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Anchored off Admiral Porter 1 sj[anchorage of 181 3 right after 9:00 a*m 
An unsuccessful search was made for Lt# Cowan* s grave* He was one of Admiral 
Porter *s young officers who was killed in a duel at this place and buried 
where he fell* It was the Presidents intention to bring his remains back to 
Annapolis xor burial had they been discovered* 
