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could see them very clearly.
About dusk they caught a
9' shark on night bait and
got it aboard.
The jaws had a fine
series of teeth which had
saved.
We also harpooned a
pair of copulating tortugas
and pulled both aboard.
Spt 3 A holiday of wintry looking calm
Spt 4 This Acapulcos was
as green and pleasant
as ever after we did
not go ashore.
The weather remained
cloudy and threatening
most of the day.
I heard one Dusky
Flycatcher on shore but
sawd nothing else of
interest.
We left about sundight
for Manzanillo .
Spt 5 Sat.
Enroute to Manzanillo with
little to note. Fly fitch
as with us as constantly
as ever they were on the
way down. no cawtires