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April I8» 1941» g^iday« PoreBooai Aoccaapaniod digging parties to 
rise of ground bot-«sreen lagoonsj under shadow of and beside red rooks* Captadn 
and one of sailors assisting helped with getting land shells* Captain also got 
a centipede, A great many smkos war© flushed anong rooks,^ grass, and brush, 
but sailors were a little lear;^ about grabbing thesi* If anything, the officers 
were more shy than sailors but, inhibitions notwithstanding. In the oopple of 
days at James the crew got me two slripod siakos, fine, large, and well fed 
appearing speeteeas. A lot of digging was done, css 3 eI |5 site Callaghan had 
started to esoa’vate, Untder the “red** rooks standing up in istteus betyeea 
the lagoons seersiod to rae a most likely place, but the rook itad so 
disintegrated that much of what aust J-iawe been a formidable peak (obelisk) 
Imd tumbled down. On© piece almost as large as tixe one standing lies at its 
base. As the thing looks to me-**ia the 128 years intervonij^ enough disinte- 
gration of the red rook has taken place to furnish mt the huge masses that 
one deposited about the remaining pinraiol® and aany others of warlous lesser 
sizes, but also a lot granular ioil 6 to 8 feet deep (perhaps) in places so 
that all traces of the grave, if any, have beooae wholly obliterated or at 
least covered up. All other ideas no t»fi standing, under the plnaacles between 
tiio lagoons ssess ti'ie logical and best naturally mrked ^ptwiitmtut) place for 
a smorable site. 
By the way, the lagoons were fiill (very full) of water, and the 
northern (I would say eastern) on# is very large, wid®, and much fejo deep to 
wade, tiam when I was here in ’33; then it was knee deep all the way across 
and, raoroever, was divided Into two by a sand ana. This all now «plalns 
the ccaplet® absence of flaialngos to me, tlw water is much too deep for the 
birds to feed on the bottom, as is ttieir wont; and also any nesting sites (if 
any liere) favored by them were inundated. Wonder how aestii:^ season eompares 
to dry or rainy season? 
