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[[preprinted]] SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Pass some high mountains on the Mexican coast which if it were not so misty would be very fine  
Pass a school of porpoises (Delphinus) of more than two hundred, leaping and playing.  The largest school I ever saw.  Pass several high volcanic mountains which seem to be still active.  At night pass several, which show activity by the flames issuing from their summits.  Night hot and sultry.  Sleep on deck and pass Acapulco, in the night.  It is said to be now blockaded by the French fleet & army.

[[preprinted]] MONDAY 17 [[/preprinted]]
Passing by a mountainous coast.  Immense flocks of Thallassidroma following the vessel.  Some sharks & whales also seen  Day hazy and sultry.  Talk over plans of operations for the future.  Have a disagreeable headache.  Write up notes for Blatchford.  See numbers of fish jumping at night.  Also see some flying fish, and what is called a whale but is only a black mystery, a good way off under water showing nothing definite. 

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 18 [[/preprinted]] 
Day clearer & cooler.  Feel a little unwell.  Rothrock is also in the same fix.  Probably the result of over exertion on the transit.  Take a big dose of quinine and lay quiet all day feel better in the evening.  Finish writing up notes for Blatchford, and commence a letter to mother & Sadie.  About five oclock strike off against the wind across the Gulf of California.  We shall not see land for several days.  May meet the Moses Taylor and send back a mail by her.

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[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Weather cooler.  We are evidently reaching a more temperate climate.  Wrote to Mrs. Kennicott.  Feel better but a little so-so-ish still.  About 7 o'clock, send up a rocket and burn a blue light, as a light is seen on our port quarter But no vessel answers  Rumor says that the light seen was the Taylor and that her captain put out his lights in order to avoid the bother of speaking the America.  So our letters will not be sent till we reach San Francisco.  Elliott skins a bird that one of the steerage passengers caught with a line

[[preprinted]] THURSDAY 20 [[/preprinted]]
Fine clear and cool.  Sight Cape St Lucas early and pass it about ten; a bare desertlike rocky coast.  Some fine rocks starting up from the sea a high arch wave-worn in one of them.  Bannister says the rocks are Triassic.  Some look like slate to me.  Red & blue much wave worn and precipitous.  Long stretches of sand beach between the rocks.  A fine place to collect shells having both sorts of collecting ground.  Xantus did no dredging here but collected only beach specimens.

[[preprinted]] FRIDAY 21 [[/preprinted]]
Open sea again.  Feel premonitions of illness, headache &c.  Rothrock also quite unwell.  A mild sort of intermittent fever, but accompanied with a fearful headache.  Doctor Mineer gives him 10 grains of calomel & tea of jalap which works strongly toward evening.  In anticipation of some thing of the same kind myself, I take about 2 grains of the blue mass to stave it off if possible.  It is undoubtably owing to overexertion in the transit.  However that can't be helped now.  At night take four cathartic pills without effect.