Friday 
4-6-23 
13 
9-2o. Went ahead part speed. 
10:14 French Frigate Shoals abeam. This is a fascinating group of 
low sand spits encircled by a barrier reef with a glorious volcanic pinnacle 
rising xo the southward where the barrier is .incomplete. From our posi- 
xion half an hour ago it (the pinnacle) looks very like a schooner under 
sail and there seems some dpubt as to whether it was named because of this 
resemblance or because they were discovered or named at least by a French 
navigation in command of two frigates. The sand spits are in some cases 
almost awa-h in the roaring surf that pounds even over the barrier reef, 
out two or three of them have all the Robinson Crusoe lure of sand slopes 
wnere seal haul out and great green turtles bask and laze.. 
11:45 repairs executed. Bunch of porpoise this afternoon. Dr. Wilson 
missed a shot with a harpoon. We have seen several small schools, but this 
xs xne first one that has played about our bows in proverbial fashion. Fney 
sounded like a slash the instant the harpoon was hurled. 
Hying fffeh have been almost constantly in sight yesterday and today, 
bux even so the sea seems more devoid of life than the Atlantic in similar 
laxitudes. Grant suggests- this is due to the lack of sargossum refuges 
for fry, etc 
Dr ' WllSOn nas lcept a n£:n3 ~ ine ant3 wooden bait out constantly but we 
have been making too fast time for fish to hit it. One or two have slashed 
oaiu out jfa.il.ed to hit it squarely. 
V/inc ana sea kicking us unpleasantly toward evening 'so that several 
xne coys have passed out completely and rolled in without dinner. ' 
Dinner time came and our coon showed up with a sheepish expression, a bi 
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- ' 1C ^ es anJ xerse remark, "Cook sick, - Filipino sick, 
-e free: I don’t wonder, for I'd last about 5' 
polished off the last sandwiches and rolled in at 
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icw deck. Grant and 
