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April 25. Writing on board and pickling fish (really filling up fish can)[[?]] can be soldered
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Crew using gig over side
water swarming with blue trigger fish, several hundred at least. [[Crent?]]caught 25 or 30 of them.

Several spotted rock bass (Epinephlelus?)photod 2 of them. Several Pacific rock beauties were swimming around below blue triggers between bot & surface & nearer surface, also a few tangs or [[surglon?]]fishes with the bright yellow pectorals were down below in lower levels (layers) of blue triggers.// Yesterday [[inserted]]24th [[/inserted]] Capt. got three Jordan snappers out of [[strikethrough]]fresh [[/strikethrough]]definitely fresh water of Wafer Bay streams: His [[F'ilipprer?]] boy got them by reaching around