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the crew. Except for one good haul, the other four or five were poor. We got about 3/4 of a bucket of S. siganus, Lutjanus with the spot, porgies silver, fashar, Sillago, Chelon, Chanos, shrimp, blunt nose porgies, several flatfish, silversides, Terapon, goatfish (2 species), gerrids (1 species), scorpaenid (fargaleh), 2 of the rarer apogonids. Swede stepped on a small scorpaenid (1 1/2") and got a stinging pain in his toe and foot which finally spread to his groin, and bothered him for over a half hour. I watched one [[image: sketch of fish partially submerged in wet sand]] wiggle itself down into the wet sand with its front dorsal spines erect, and its pectorals spread to give itself steadiness. Abdullah caught the rascal, and they were all sure it was the fargaleh, and the crew handle them with respect. According to them they do not exceed 8 inches in length. We had a flat calm to seine in, and the spot tailed snappers were the most abundant fish. Swede said it felt something like a bee sting. When we got back to the boat we saw several shark sucker swimming around. Spearing failed, but Hamed and Yousef tossed over fish lines near the light, and bang bang 2 were landed on deck. One was a good 2 feet the other about 20 inches, U-48-89; they looked like typical [[underline]] Echeneis naucrates [[/underline]] with the black stripe on the side, but they did not have the white tipped tail of the Long Island species. The shamal came up during the night sometime, and was blowing hard from 2 A.M. on, and the boat was pitching back and forth. 
  June 8 - Clear at sunrise with strong shamal winds. The set line was minus 3 hooks, and the 4th was straightened out; probably a large snake. The crabs were thicker than sin last night and we were about 100 yds. from shore. The snakes were also thick. The bait consisted of some anchovy. We got under way at 7:30 A.M. bound for west pier. At 8:25 A.M. we left west pier for Al Khobar at the Palestine. We reached Al Khobar at 12:45 P.M. The shamal increased considerably about noon, and Al
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Khobar was a haze of dust, and hot winds. There is a long shallow bar with [[insertion]] short [[/insertion]] grass on it opposite Dammam. At the south end of it near a buoy I saw a genuine osprey. This afternoon, we went ashore and met Gurley who came down to see us, and we got Ahmed straightened out on pay & letters; and got in a food order. I stopped in to see Jim, and he said he might be over to Bahrain in a day or so. We left Khobar pier at 5:45 arriving at "Al Baini" at 6:50 going almost due east. There was quite a shamal at Dhahran & Al Khobar with the dust blowing over the road. By 5:00 p.m. the shamal had abated slightly. About 1/2 way to Al Baini we passed a solid band of [[fugulul ?]] jellyfish (the solid white large ones. They looked like a strip of solid ice chunks in the water. They were north and south as far as the eye could see and the band was about 30 ft. or 40 ft. thick and as deep as you could see. Elsewhere they were abundant. It was an interesting island to anchor by. [[Image titled "Al Bainy". Sketch of an island surrounded by water. N (North) is labeled to the right of the image, E (East) below the image, and S (South) to the left of the image. A boat is anchored close by to the East of the island. "Shags" are drawn and labeled on the southern portion of the island, a "fish trap" is drawn and labeled to the west, and a "marker" and "fisherman's hut" are drawn and labeled on the north side of the island. The island is also labeled with the word "sand."]] It was inhabited by terns and cormorants. I am glad that the crew brought us out here. The hills of Dhahran could be seen dimly under the setting sun, and the outlying isles of Bahrain could be seen to the east. The shamal continued all evening & night. Even so we set a set line & 3 eel pots, and seined on the isle. I also caught some pipefish & yg. Siganids with the light over side. Just a few Atherinids and small porgies & mullet were caught on the lee side of the isle. Cyprinodon dispar were present on the windward side. There was sand and considerable current all around. There were lots of large ghost crabs on the beach all around the isle. And the cormorants did not move much when I walked near them. 
  June 9th - Swede and I were up at dawn this morning to lift

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Transcription Notes:
scorpaenid = faryaleh? v fargaleh?