ACRES OF ALBATROSS BONES 



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By the time the bird-butchers had accumulated between 

 three and four carloads of wings, and the carnage was half 

 finished, William A. Bryan, Professor of Zoology in tin- Col- 

 lege of Honolulu, heard of il and promptly wired the I nited 

 Stales ( rovernment. 



"Without the loss of a nioiiuMil Ihe Secretary of the Navy 

 despatched the revenue culler The/is to tin 1 shambles of 



ALBATROSS BONES <>\ L.AYSAN [SLAND, 1911. 

 Alter tiic tragedy. <>nr mile long and one hundred and Bftj reel wide paved with bom 



Laysan. "When Captain Jacobs arrived lie found that in 

 round numbers about three hundred linn/sand birds had been 

 destroyed, and all thai remained of them were several acres 

 of bones and dead bodies, and about three carloads of wings, 

 feathers and skin-. It was evident thai Schlemmer's inten- 

 tion was to kill all the birds on the island, and only the timely 

 arrival of the Thetis frustrated that bloody plan. 



The twenty-three Japanese poachers were arrested and 

 taken to Honolulu for trial, and the Thetis also brought away 



