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124 July 22-letter to Lucile & Austin Clark July 22 letter to Hadleys, Lucile, & Aunt Katrine & Mexican survey committee of A.F.S.C a [[insertion]] love [[/insertion]] letter to Lucile and a letter to Felix Inigo telling him that we hoped to arrive Sept. 1 and hoped to do some collecting together. I saw a good movie tonight called the barracuda it was a story of square riggers ploaghing the trades between Cartagena and Tortugas. The girl was beautiful with graceful auburn clear blue eye and black eyelashes a pretty nose kissable lips pretty ears and pretty breasts and a graceful carriage with long arms and legs and a broad pelvis and very pretty teeth. ear rings and jewelry fitted her very well. There was a fort like Morro castle in La Habana and there were pretty sunsets blue and grey seas and white trade cumulus clouds in Cartagena lagoon at night. It was altogether a very pleasing picture. I sweated and cursed roundly at the typewriter today as I banged out my report. July 22 - Airplane trip postponed to Monday. Dusty sky today but almost no wind, quite hot. I went to the movies again tonight finished a book wrote letters to aunt Katrine and the A.F.S.C. July 23 - Clearer today and hot. I went out to the Palestine for the day. The sky became dusty again and there was a light north west wind. With Ahmed's help I straightened out the fishes collected in my absence including a new species of grouper, and wrapped and labeled them. In the early afternoon I ran a short poison station by the fish pier rocks I got a few small fish and 8 interesting blennies. I am still pretty weak on my pins and tire easily. I mailed a color film today, and Letters to Elsie & Lucile. I ate lunch about 4 P.M. and I ran a sailor's [[end page]] [[start page]] 125 report to Schultz July 21, letter Chace: July 23 needle thru my arm while fixing a sandal. I went to the movies tonight. July 24 - Clear and hot today with little wind. I mailed a letter to Lucile ate breakfast, and went to see K.O. Feltmon to get the ball rolling. He got me to call Mr. Johnson in Dhahran to arrange my airplane trip home around Aug 10th which he said he would do. Then we went to the clinic to see the doctor about physical exams, etc I then went to Mr. Sanders to arrange for shipping my boxes back to the states which he said could be done and shipped in two months, he also filled out a shop order for me for two wooden boxes and raise and reinforce lid on one of my old boxes which I took to Mr. Hutchinson's office at the refinery. I will have to give him an idea of the sizes needed. I put the order in for 2 boxes 40"-30"-24" and reinforce lid on #19. I went down and loaded on 4 boxes from the fish pier (3 were fish) and one nets and took them up to the storage house this afternoon. I also got my heavy rubber gloves. I went fishing tonight off the end of the fish pier tonight with the hoop net. I caught only a few small fish scorpaenids, [[duasumierids ?]], and gerrids & red shrimp. I saw a few gub gubs but no snakes. There were a lot of one foot gars and silversides. I weigh only 155 lbs. and came over at 180 lb., and I am still pretty weak on my pins. I sure will be glad to get back to the States. There were clouds in the sky this afternoon, small cumulus, and early this evening. It was hot during the first part of the night. July 25 - I went to Dhahran today. I typed up most of my museum box inventory this morning. I took the bus to Dhahran from 11:30 to 12:40 crawling and bumping along over