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  • the surface of the water before they broke the surface. They were travelling fast + after being shot at three times refused to follow the boat any longer. Nepean Sound off Minktrap Bay. Aug [August] 14. Ran through another school of Dalls porpoise but they did not give us a chance to get a shot into them. Laredo Channel off Kent Inlet Aug [August] 28-29. We took two Dalls Porpoise in Laredo one on the 28th one on the 29th Both of which Mr [Thomas T] McCabe shot + I harpooned while in their last stages of exhaustion. On the 29th we saw two porpoise that were not Dalls apparently quite large in size they rolled in the manner of Harbor porpoise + were a light Brown color. We were unable to collect them. Sept [September] 23/42 [1942] Vancouver. Allan Lyon of Hardy Bay reports seeing a very young Dall porpoise in Goletas Channel in Aug. [August] 10, 1942. States that he frequently sees them after the first week in August. Can only swim about 100 yds submerged when very young.
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