We here had an hour of the finest fishing. X. got two deaptiful tangfuingui, and T, one end another barracuda. Out near the island, we circled the rock twice but, close in, got ole bass. The place gave one an uncanny feeling as it was menacing and sombre. There was very deep water close up and no place where one could et a foothold, fin case of wanting to land. We returned to the shore and decided to Ihave some lunch. There were now 14 lovely fish in the boat and as we could not possibly got back to the village before dark T decided to take Jo picture of what we had, rather than risk not having one at all, did my best with the boat wabbling.
After lunch, I immediately got a tine barracuda, and then X. another, fand also a bass. All this time, we were approaching the north end of the island. The schooner had been a long time out of sight and we could see the wind had increased and there was a geod sea runnh though from our position we feel it, as we were under the lee. At three 'o'clock, we stopped " fishing lurider the Begui Point Lighthouse, find packed up the gear and. made! ready for the last lap. Started off Jand very soon after rounding the Point realized we wore in for a lucking if nothing worse.
The sca was very heavy and on a Jdead lee shore. The water was very broken. X. took the helm and
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