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Nov. 2D 
Blnion wakene' 1 at 6:00 A.-M* and we 
starter*’ the at sea watdh: v;e found the ocean 
ca im as a lake with very few riroles and only • 
lono* . low swell a : we had jj#™ our ten day 
■iournev on a course of 0 p toward Honolulu * 
Ho^er and' Larry were in shin binds for the 
duration while" Birion and T, and Georye and 
No" alternated th^ee hour watches — one of 
ns on the bow with a mm, the other on the 
firing bridme with ihe record' sheets: birds 
sotm were logged as usual with the following 
entries: suedes. number, direction, height 
and remarks ? .we sighted one whale on the port 
bow during our swatch and George saw another 
after he and Ken took over at 9 : 00 : we began 
seeinm a great number of storm netrels of 
different species — several, were shot at but 
missed:, about li.OO P.H. a Marlin sufficed 
three times off the starboard bow, and a short 
while thereafter a whale spouted off the 
starboard beam* about this same time the water 
took on more rinnles as the wind nicked up 
a little* at 1:15 the crew held a fire drill: 
there being few birds about. T directed some 
of my attention to the activity stirred up by 
the fire alarm and witnessed a great di snlav 
of moorlv nrenared confusion* I had earlier 
lost confidence in my chances of survival if 
V fo were to abandon shin and now my confidence 
in fire rrevention dwindled": about 15 minutes 
after the fire drill we encountered a rain 
soua.11 which did' a beautiful yob of wetting 
down the decks - it Was as if the "Great 
Firemen in the Sky" was savin**, »sorry I'm 
late for the drill, hope I don't miss the 
real thing:" I agreed * the rest of the day was . 
a. blueprint of the days to foil ow - we watched 
and Soger aid Larry skinned. 
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