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breeae and got within two or three miles of otcr destination, wMn 

 the wiM aied, and w© anohored in about 30 fathoms of water* 

 Bome skins out of pickle and wa^ & soive thorn. 



Early in the afternoon 



and we 



reached 



Bhcrtlj 



i 



is all o 



, in 



ed with coconuts, there 



being only two or three big trees other than coconuta. fhe i 

 has no true harbor close by but the natives have their houses on 

 the north ^de and keep their prshns there. but at low tide there 

 no water at all for about two hundred ;^rds from #iore, and to the 

 east the sandy reef rxms a long ways. 



June 9^ 1913* 

 Pulo Balik Elukup. 



I was very much surprised to fir 



its on this island so 

 Shis specie 8 is pro- 



different from those of the other islands, 

 bably closely related to SpimyB ephippium. 

 Paula, who owns most of the trees here and 

 twenty years told xob that ferine rly there \ 

 that they had long since been exterminBtod by his 

 only mmmals of the island are the small rats and the small Pter- 



The old Bajan, Araa Si 

 B lived here for about 

 were large rats here but 



1, thus the 



opus; the latter are common and destroy 



coconuts. 



• 



Tuesday, June 10, 1913. 

 Fttlo Balok Xukup. 



When I had finiehed intiking up skins I went and shot more bats 

 and three birds. Birds cannot be considered ooramon here. There 



are sorm kingfishers, small herons and I saw two Bjaall birds 

 the Bize of caterpillar shrikes, but did not get a shot at them 

 and I got a sulft ^ich probably ms only a visiter. 



