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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 the Col- 

 lege of Honolulu, heard of it and promptly wired the United 

 States Government. 



AVithout the loss of a moment the Secretary of the Navy 

 despatched the revenue cutter Thetis to the shambles of 



ALBATROSS BONES ON LAYSAN ISLAND, 1911. 

 After the tragedy. One mile long and one hundred and fifty feet wide paved with bones. 



Laysan. When Captain Jacobs arrived he found that in 

 round numbers about three hundred thousand birds had been 

 destroyed, and all that remained of them were several acres 

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

 feathers and skins. It was evident that 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 



