"Hachem, C.D. 1965 Journal March 19 Palmyra Island This man ate a club snail within 12 hours he was nauseous. The fourth man went whole hog and ate about a pound of the fish and within 6 hours was in real agony. This morning she was in shock and in extremely bad shape. All of this needless suffering simply because many people just won't believe they are vulnerable to such things. The " it can't happen to me" attitude gets more people in trouble. Throughout this trip we have constantly made it a point to say something about the dangers of fish poisoning to the crewmen wherever they were feeling. Yesterday when the snapper that was eaten was caught someone remarked that they felt it would taste delicious and I stated I wouldn't eat that fish on a bet. Ironically, two of the men who are now below suffering from the very thing I was afraid of were standing there when I made that statement. I certainly hope this isn't a really serious or debilitating dose of the poisoning. This afternoon on the carpenter was giving the fish poisoning victim an injection, the victim had a fit and the needle was knocked off. They rushed him down to the Chief's quarters and operated on his arm to remove the needle. The fellow is now in Kirkpatrick's bed below Fred and me. A bit while ago one of the crewmen slipped on the wet deck & wounded his feet. All sorts of bad things are happening at present. It is certainly a sorry way to end what has otherwise been a very good cruise. Worked on a little packing and inventorying today. Not much to be done now since I packed 9/10 of the gear while the crew was on Palmyra. Ate my fourth diet of penicillin tonight. Sailed out at 0930.