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to explore interior water of Bahia Honda key. There is a [[red underline]] little inlet Southerly of our anchorage which draws [[/red underline]] about 30" to 3 feet at low tide. trouble is a short bar specially at low tide. Otherwise would make excellent shelter. Channel leads to near R.R. embankment While rowing along in shallow inside water between mangrove saw a small [[strikethrough]] sword [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] sawfish shark [[/red underline]] and speared him but he got out of the [[?grains]], and charged me viciously jumping towards the boat with sword in the air and showed pointed daggarlike attachment [[strikethrough]] near [[/strikethrough]] below tail. [[red !! in left margin]] Fortunately a second thrust caught him near head fin. but only one point of grain was
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engaged ^[[in his flesh]] and he made vicious thrusts at me in little rowboat I feared the one of the engaged prongs would loosen and as I [[red underline]] in my bathing suit [[/red underline]] did not relish the thought of a thrust of the sword or a sting from his point ^[[on my bare legs]] [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] kept him out of the water so as to minimize effect of his tail then managed to slip a knot over his sword and kept him out of the water for about 3/4 of an hour until most aggressiveness had passed away, then managed to row slowly back to the [[red underline]] Cygnet. [[/red underline]] Lewis joined me in further exploration. of the inland water. then went wading and caught 3 [[red underline]] spiny lobsters [[/red underline]] under sponges also harvested [[red underline]] many sponges [[/red underline]] One of Lewis measured about 24 inch diameter. About
[[left margin in red]] Cygnet [[/left margin]]