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Each one of theYdozen of us who completed the round trip up and 
hack had, along with all his other troubles, a good load to pack hack to the 
ship, some part or another of our palm specimens. From a heavy-duty, heavy- 
weight deck bucket filled with mud and palm seedlings, to a burlap sack with 
an inflorescence plus a section of the trunk of the palm to which it was 
attached, from a segment of the bole of the tree to a huge leaf all of / 
feet in length. We brought down portions of one sort or another of three 
different palm trees, besides two heavy axes, several cameras, a tripod, and 
other appurtenances. It was a dog-tired, well muddied, wet and bedraggled 
bunch that finally came out late that afternoon on the beach of Wafer Bay 
at the dilapidated treasure hunter’s camp, where the stream we had followed 
up so blithely that morning debouches into the sea. 
These Cocos jungles are interesting places, too wet perhaps at the 
time of our visit for the biting ants to bother us— we had no trouble with 
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them — and'alive with flying ternS^and no end of fuzzy brown fledgling 4 d|jp«i(p*.Q 
Barron brought out a tern in adult plumage that he had caught as it was hov- 
ering overhead. 
August 2. 
During our second day at Cocos we staged a hunt for tree ferns and 
got several, perhaps of different species. But after that trip of yesterday 
none of us had any great yearning for more hill climbing, though we did go 
back to asssss-sasEHSsHsasS’ Wafer Bay and clamber up the heights forming the 
south side of the Arroyo. It was here that we got our tree ferns and additional 
color stills of the rare palm, including one of the root system of a smaller 
tree clinging to the steep hillside. 
