Exrract from Schlemmer's Diary (cont.) 
[No goonies seen by this date] 
[Went around the island but nothing new found], 
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[No goonies seen when they went around island]. We saw however 
two geese. As we are very short of provisions, I got my gun.and 
shot them. I shall save the heads and feet to find out from where 
they came as I have never noticed them on the island when I was , 
here before in charge of the guano works. 
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,. . . Eric Schlemmer shot two wild ducks 
. . . Eric Schlemmer saw the first Goonie arrive. 
Harold Brandt and Eric Schlemmer went around the island looking for 
Goonies and Albatrosses. They saw 2 goonies but no albatrosses. 
Heretofore, during observations when I was on the island, the 
albatrosses have always arrived first and the Goonies several days 
lat er. 
This day we saw two more Goonies. At 5 p.m. saw two albatrosses. 
This day we saw & more albatrosses. 
The goonies and albatrosses arrive very slowly. 
Goonies and albatrosses are very few in numbers as yet, but I hope 
they will ejamExxiacsn soon come. > 
This day we went around the isJa nd and counted 71 goonies and only 0C& 
10 albatrosses, which was never the case at this time of the 
season in former years as we had at least two thousand of them. 
I also wish to state that the Terns are pretty near all gone. Only 
a few of them are left. We had about 20 or 30 thousand of them. 
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This day we went along the beach.-I estimated that about 500 
goonies have arrived. 
This day we went around the island. Eric Schlemmer and Harold 
Brandt turned over two large turtles, one weighing about 300 
pounds. We also saw about 300 albatrosses and the Goonies are 
arriving in large numbers. 
This day Eric Schlemmer and Harold Brandt got two more fine 
turtles . . . The white albatross seem to come in a little 
better now. 
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some new arrivals of Albatross and Goonies 
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I also wish to state that last evening about six o'clock I saw 
a bird climbing one of theicoconut trees in front of our house. 
It was quick as a monkey. I got my boy Eric to climb up the tree 
and see what sort of a bird it was. To our surprise it was a 
"Mutton Bird." 
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