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Nov, 17 
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and stirred shout 
.fra u t> our ^eart George collected the 
rat traps which contained one Rat t us exulansr 
v/e .Loaned the ooar ? shook hands and were on our 
wav amid ^Tiakaho ® s 1 * by 6 *^‘5: v/e had 
honed to get down to tie southern end of the 
c., i/Oll ^his morning no survey the birds that we 
*■ ■ ^^la were nesting there- — they indicated 
° na ^ ^rey ala nested an trees and from the 
description we concxuded that they were Hav/aiian 
noddies; xg tiae was too low to go anywhere in 
tne lagoon except straight out toward the ship, 
which we did: about a quarter mile from shore" 
~u.nion Sue o a. .black— raped - e r n (included in 
<yiie 1° 01 yesterday); v/e covered the distance 
j.i.uta .0 trouble outside of a loose gas line, 
a*.i. ar.i j.ved ac i*ne snxp at 8:05* George had 
left earlier with the island dignitaries in 
their large outrigger - they went through the 
south passage while v/e went over the reef and 
arrived only minutes behind: them; their canoe 
was ;' ne largest we had seen to date and carried 
' ' 1 -'^ r at a time: George told me later that 
L:’.e crew was composed of prisoners of the 
village who had been convicted' of over indulgence 
y so y tod y **id fighting - the island sentences 
“ crime run xront 1 % o 3 months and the 
sentence is served 1 ' as follows; they serve their 
«ime in a .Local nriso n and work for the community 
(wring weir sentence — they snend six nights 
a v. r eek xn prison, go home Saturday noon and 
return ounriay evening - manning the outrigger 
was pars of their community o work; v/e had break- 
fast on board, the visitors were shovm around 
the ship and then the anchor was nulled at. 
9;00 and tie natives returned' to their outrigger: 
as we rounded the southern tin of the atoll on 
our way to Kuria Atoll, George and I watched' 
x:rom the flying bridge for bird® over the island, 
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