. Fig. 71. Santa Elena and the Gulf of Guayaquil. Track of the ship, July 30-August 2. From St. WS 715 to 719 course maintained 270°. reaches the beach, becomes redder, forming eddies by the shore. The fish, and especially corvina, collect in these eddies. When aguaje draws off, the fish remain stupefied near the beach and with them all other fish with their food—shrimps, octopuses, other molluscs, sea urchins, and various other animals. Red aguaje may go away leaving the water frothy. Fishermen say that fish washed up on the beach are poisonous and produce a

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