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Saturday-30 July, 1938 
The president decided that a profitable forenoon might 
be spent on San Salvador (James) Island in search of the 
grave of Lt. Cowan, TJ.S.N., attached to the Essex (Commodore 
David porter, U.S.N.) and who, in 1813, as a result of a 
duel, was killed and buried in the vicinity of r ies Bay. 
Accordingly, it 0530 today the Houston and cDougal got under- 
way from Seymour Island and proceeded to an anchorage in James 
Bay, which they reached about 0995. 
1 landing party of some fifty officers and men disem- 
barked on the beach about 0950, and, forming a skirmish line 
normal to the beach, swept the interior area from north to 
south for a distance of approximately 1-g miles and 300 yards 
in depth, in search of Lt . Cowan’s grave. Ho conclusive evi- 
dence of its location was found though Ens. Johnson, U.S.3. 
Houston, located a peculiar and uniform assemblage of rocks 
at the foot of a 35-foot spire of volcanic rock which might 
