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horn© to him and he can have a fair play with the octopus Wien the time is 
ripe* So far he has been most inactive and uncooperative# Eats little or 
nothing, spends the days with his entire body coiled out of sight behind 
the rooks. I have not a single frame of film on him so far. Tom reported 
that ho had been a ble to get him to take a piece of fish this morning# 
Perhaps ho is coming around. The octopus appears to bo content m th his 
house and should be ready for business at any time. 
Spent the morning trying to get a record of the boxers on the Nassau 
grouper. Managed, I think, both stills and movies. Too bad ray other 
camera is still out of business. I have been working on it, of course, and 
it appears the problems wore not as groat as I had thought at first. It is 
coming around, but it will be a few days yet. 
A large barracuda cR,me for a visit in the afternoon with a school of 
small jacks flipping about him. He lay a foot or so off the bottom, watching 
us with his big calculating eyes. His flanks became blotched and mottled 
so that ho was all but invisible against the gently moving sea plumes. I 
came to the conclusion that he was waiting for one of the reef fish to 
forget that he was there, and set the camera on him for a half hour hoping 
to see him strike. But he only hung there, his eyes unblinking and glitter- 
ing, and at last slowly tilted upward like a Zeppelin leaving a mooring, 
and drifted away, his entourage of jacks skittering around him, and vanished 
into the water haze. 
