Pmre go. ^ > i 
10. Many crab boles were seen but scarcely any crabs. In *98 
Snodgrass reoarked that the Island was so ower-ron with land crabs that 
any bird shot for the sake of nakioga study skin wotild hare to be pidfeed 
up immediately or the crabs would rend it to pieces, foday there are 
q\iite a ntanber of pigs on the Islantl, and no doubt because of their 
presence the crabs liare been ssuch reduced in number. The pigs were a 
surprise find. A considerable number of old and yoiing were seen. They 
must eke out a precarious existence, with little or no fresh water, birds, 
eggs, end crabs for food supplemented by a sparse vegetation. Barron, 
seaman, who has been a most indefatigable and helpful assistant to me at 
HI times, secured a good sised piece of the Ciipperton Rode. I was very 
an.-dotis to obtain this so tlmt it might be eramined by the Museum Geologists 
with a view to determining its nature and perimps age, 
11. (i^ite an extensive series of shrimps of various kinds. In- 
cluding two large bright colored turrowlng shrimps, and a number of rnardl 
snaijping shrimps, marine crabs of several species, worms, and molluscs 
were taken from crevices in old coral heads. Sane algae were sav®i, par— v 
ticularly from the Island's lagoon #iioh was thickly crowded with filamentous 
green plant growth. Specimens of the vegetation of the island are being 
pressed so that they may be identiHed. 
12. The burrowing shrimps au^e of particular interest as they 
are the first of this tsrpe to show a distinct and brightly marked color 
pattern on the large claws with which they are armed. Ordinarily, shrimps 
of this kind are more or less of a dead white color, due to their subter- 
ranean habits. I'or this reason they are often called ghost shrimps. 
13 . Several of the crude nests of tte boobies were brought back 
for examination of their insect inhabitants, and already a tiny mollusc, 
several insects, and earthworms have been sorted out of the nest debris. 
Dry grass, odd a and ends of shrub stalks, a few feathers and even bits of 
drift wood such as a bit of light wood or shingle go into the bedding of 
these boobies. Any animal life from an island so far ramoved ^rom the 
mainland and fuiy other land masses as Ciipperton is of peculiar interest 
because of the light it might throw on the distribution and tmxsport of 
the spjcies occurrieg there. 
14. Most regrettably, it was not possible to get cameras ashore, 
as the landing par y had to swim for it, going and coming. Although one 
could almost walk out to the boat where it was anchored Just beyond the 
breakers, the bottom was treacherous and full of deep holes into which 
one stepped without warning to go over his head. Any future landing party 
should take a watertight tsa^k along for getting cj®eras through the breakers. 
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