Husted, Dayle N . 
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and a Bonin Island Petrel. I hope to be able to collect one of these 
birds. Warren is having a bad time with the blunderbuss, but I would 
too if the beast had about taken my finger off. The strap was taken 
off of the cannon, so that won’t be any problem anymore. The rest of the 
day was quiet with not much being seen. While one was at the hydro 
there was a flock in front of us, but there wa s nothing that could be 
done about it . 
July 22 — Today we had some very good luck and some rather bad luck. 
The sea was very calm which made shooting easy. Evidently Warren 
calmed down because he started hitting birds today. About 0805 this 
morning he shot a Dark-rumped Petrel and about 5 minutes later he got a 
White-necked Petrel. Next I shot a Dark-rumped Petrel. Then I got 
lucky on a long shot and got another. About l440 this afternoon 
Warren got anothEr one. About 1630 two Dark-rumped Petrel came by 
and I shot one and hit him in the wing. The bird started for the water 
so I shot again bringing him down. The bird fell into the sun, and I 
lost sight of him, but Paul Shiota who was the bow also, kept track of 
him. Johns made a half way attempt at a U turn, but didn’t complete 
it and took off back south. The boys on the bridge shouted at him, 
but it didn’t do any good. If Johns didn’t want to alter course he 
could have told me and I wouldn't have shot anything. Warren went running 
up to the bridge to find out what was the matter, but got no explanation. 
These people just don’t see the importance of getting a series of 
birds. This is not going to happen again, because I am going to check 
and see each time if they are going to allow the ship to alter course. 
