Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 254
took was the oneto Santa Catalina Island. We took the steamer at SanPedro and sailed out on the Pacific Ocean. This wasmy first ocean voyage, and how I loved to sit on thedeck and watch the sea-gulls and the flying-fish skim-ming along over the waves! After some hours we sawthe island, like a… … seaweeds growing at the bottom, so tall they almosttouched our boat. Bright fishes, gold, olive, blue, red,and brown ones, swam over the rocks and shells, dart-ing among the seaweed. What fun divers must have!I did not know they could see so well under the water.
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