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1000 fathoms of the best Pacific blue. I preferred to help keep watch for sharks, which crowded round five minutes after men came inboard.
Nov 14. Fanning Is. cable & W/T station. Interesting place. Atoll or ring of coral. Germans came here & destroyed as much as they cd. a few weeks ago. It was the Nurnberg. It seems the Super. buried money, papers & spare parts & then actually put the plan in the safe! G's came, opened the safe & sailed away. Evidently had fd. Plan, came back, dug up the spoil. Poor Superintendent! Water of the most intense blue, far bluer than any advt. Amazing sight. Left same night.
Nov 15. On our way to Magdalena Bay, Mexican California. We think in terms of continents now a days & discuss each continent as if it were the next town. After a total of 45000 miles one does get blasé in these matters. We are to rendezvous with the Japanese Fleet, Idzumo, Hizen, Asama. Hear then ten