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During the afternoon I saw one of the peculiar fresh water porpoises show his dorsel fin. The captain says he sees them often but they are never in [[strikethrough]]p[[/strikethrough]] schools only in pairs or solitary. Waterbirds were singularly scarce, the only ones seen were a few - anhigas or cormorants.

[[circled left]] 17 [[/circled left]] The night was quite pleasant, ^[[only a]] few mosquitos came about & the electric fan kept me cool. We left our anchorage at daylight but the fog came up soon after & blurred the landscape so we had to anchor again until breakfast time at 9 AM.

Transcription Notes:
dorsel should be dorsal anhigas should be anhingas