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James Bay    19th [[circled]]1[[/circled]]
[[underlined]]April 19[[/underlined]] up as usual at 6:30 breakfast at 7 ashore 7:30 Capt commander & I went to look at an inscription sailor off "44" had found day before [[image: / 4 horizontal lines and arrow pointing down and to right]] four lines and arrow pointing down, on side of about largest tree on height or level high ground to left mouth of lagoon beach. While they looked for 15-20 mins I went looking for herons nest that man (Tolman or Coleman) of Davidson sub had found on larger, north lagoon in tree over hanging water. scarcely 2 feet off water, but did I have job locating it, with general directions given me (sub left at 9 a.m. & so I could not have the man to direct me.// For a long time I wandered about under man groves & it was mean travelling, then I waded around in water outside of mangrove [[fringe?]] & still could not find anything saw a Geospiza nest high up in tree, with few [[strikethrough]]dead[[/strikethrough]] egg shell