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[[underlined]]April 4, 1941.[[/underlined]] Salinas , Ecuador.  Collected low tide 1:30 to about 3:00 p.m.  Left Salinas at 6 p.m.  Bought dozen small (4 oz.) Welch grape juice bottles, 1 sucre each; $1 for the lot.

Wind: S. 2-3-4-5.
Temp.: (a) 84-87. (b) 77-79. (c) 83.
Weather: BC - C.

9045 Anchored Santa Elena Bay, 10 fms. E. Watkins and Ecuadorian.

11.13 moved into 6 fms. 17.45 underway for Galapagos.

[[underlined]]April 5, 1941.[[/underlined]] En route Galapagos.

Wind: SW 3-2, S. 2-3-1.
Temp.: (a) 82-89. (b) 77-86. (c) 83-80-82.

[[underlined]]April 6, 1941.[[/underlined]] Enroute Galapagos.

Wind: S.1 - S.W. 2-1.
Temp.: (a) 80-88. (b) 77-81. (c) 82-84.
Weather: [[underlined by hand]]BC - C - BC[[/underlined by hand]]

[[underlined]]April 7, 1941.[[/underlined]] Anchor 3 miles east of Freshwater Bay, Chatham.  Landed first on white sand beach we called Blanch Beach (after our medico).  Later moved down to waterfalls and larger stream that I had visited with Hancock back in a little bight with shingle beach.  Lower reaches of stream impassable to growth only way is to strike inland for quite a ways crossing a sizable tributary to the main stream.

Tonel, Meneses Peñaherrera, Territorial Chief, San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands. Interpreter: F. Polanco. Dr. José Ribadeneira. Mrs. Karin Gulberg Cobos.

Got in in early afternoon. Dr. went ashore and after his return about     rest of us went ashore and called on him.  Pineapple bananas 2 rounds whiskey, but nobody drank water.  Took picture of group.  Wreck