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6 [[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