Following a map drawn by the late Admiral George Dewey, the S. S. Maryland fetched up and hove to off Cape San Lucas, lower California. Two launches were lowered for a late-afternoon fishing expedition. Captain Victor A. Kimberley, the Maryland's commander, put off in a third boat to act as a patrol against unimaginable dangers from the desolate Mexican shore. In his hands rested the safety of his country's President-elect.
Tall though the tales of Fisherman Zane Grey et al. may be, and excellent though the map of Admiral Dewey, the waters off Cape...
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