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WASHINGTON ISLAND 
The party got off to a bad start here when the ship refused to give-- 
passage to the manager of Fanning Island Plantations (this includes 
Washington island). The ship made a real hash of saying no finally ending 
with the captain refusing to talk to Mr. Palmer. This is not likely to 
heir our relations and it is very possible that we will be refused 
■permission to land on future visits. Mr. Frma, Washington Island Manager, / 
was as kind as ever and allowed Mr. Long and Cantain Holway to stay ashore 
as his guest. The rest of the party came ashore for the day on the 
?5th and 26th. The usual surveys were carried out and banding as usual 
was impossible. 
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Palmyra Island 
Desrite an exasperating and sometimes dangerous series of failures 
on the ship£ rart the party landed on the 27th and derarted on the 29th/ 
without lose of life or injury to any members of the party. 
1494 birds were banded, 7 were collected ( including two species new 
to the island) and 93 blood samples were taken. Because of the short 
time ashore and the size of the island it proved impractical to make a 
survey of the entire area. 
The ship's crew was very cooperative right to the end of t^e cruise. 
This spirit of cooperation was not shared by r Captain Viessmann who accidently 
or intentionally made every aspect of life aboard and ashore more trying 
than is normal on an ATF cruise. The finalboat runs on Palmyra were 
considered so unsafe by the crew that none of them would come ashore for 
liberty and vet the cantain continued to run unsafe boats in with unreliable 
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motors. It is no exaggeration to say that had one of these boats or motors 
given out the entire party in the boat would have swept out to sea and once 
at sea their chances of being spotted by a searching ship would have 
been very small. 
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