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Nov#. 19 , 
Arose at 7 : BO A-*W* ^or breakfast and 
outrigger watching: at B-00 Binion and Bave 
went a shore for insect nets and 1 ast minute 
.thanks fo^ hospitality shown us; they returned 
about 10 : 00 ? we - ot the last of the natives 
off the shin t secured the loose riles of • itmk 
around the lab and were undervm’v for Arunuka 
at 1G : 15 : Arunuka Atoll was and alternative^ 
on the itinerary. but the captain consented 
to taking us there since it was only seven 
miles from Kuria Atoll; as soon as nulled 
awav from Kuria* Binion and T took an at sea 
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watch but saw verv little; we p ronned anchor 
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at Arunuka Atoll at 11:20 - we were now only 
about 10 miles from the equator; if we bad bad 
more time and the crew had not been quite as 
a. nun o u s wi t h o u r earlier* do -1 . ay s I am sure 
they would have gone on across the equator in 
order to mor the. deck with us in the usual 
eouator crossing ceremonv; we had chow aboard 
shin and at 1 B*ps took the raft in to shore 
and the main village via the west pass age; 
the reed was very vd.de end we had to dodge 
corn 1 heads for a half mice : a Black-naned 
Tern was colled ted on our way in - he was 
sitting on a stick marker above a coral head: 
at 1 : 2b we arrived or the island and found the 
local dignitaries waiting for us in "white 11 
shirts and dark ties: Binion owlained our 
visit to the Magistrate ? Chief Police end 
Wireless oner a. tor? he got consent to collect 
birds on the island* so George and Larry 
headed south with o^e gun and a multitude of 
native children: Bnve vent about sweening the 
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area, for insects* Ray looked around the village, 
and Binion and I went to sign the register and 
then o ontinue north on tee island to collect birds 
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