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Feb.22,  George Washington's Birthday  
Today at home [[underlined]] bargain [[/underlined]] sales [[right margin, wavy line on left side of text]] people sleep before stres all night [[/right margin]]
Rain last night this a.m. heavily [[underlined]] overcast. [[/underlined]] Headed for Alcock Id. will get there around 12 noon.
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/Jack Tells me we almost ran onto a shoal going back to Alcock Id. A heavily overcast day, dull grey, rain with [[insertion]] [[circled]] an [[/circled]] [[/insertion]] occasional snow flurry. [[line to edge of page]]
Plastic bagged a lot of bottled things.
Feb. 23, 1963. Saturday
Nasty day all yesterday - carried over into this a.m. Had a great iceberg descend upon our bow bump and engines running woke me up around 5 oclock. 
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Spring Point ^[[insertion]] black & white rock with dark spots [[/insertion]] bright green with mosses and lichen yellow & orange lichens [[boxed text]] Capt Mac tells me that [[/boxed text]]
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[[boxed text]] Shoals & rocks [[/boxed text]]
[[red line above and below]] Feb. 23/ [[circled]] Alcock Id [[/circled]] [[/red underline]]
Got ashore [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] islet, practically part of Alcock. Chin straps, sheath bills, cape pigeons. Giant Petrels (fide Mac), Skuas. Got ashore for an hour 9:30 to 10:30 Picked up trap 1 fish lots of amphipods bits of red also Dredge haul; gravel, {[[boxed text]] only bit of mud [[/boxed text]]
In afternoon heavy snowfall, enough for men to engage in snow balling one another [[boxed text]] 3 p.m. or so? [[/boxed text]]