1913 - Thetis 
10 Mar® - 
11 Mar. - 
12 Mar. — 
coll; 
13 Mar. - 
15 Mar® - 
19 Mar. - 
20 Mar* - 
191U - Thetis 
1 Sept, — 
8 Sept® - 
9 Sept, - 
11 Sept® - 
12 Sept. - 
curlew* 
off Laysan 
Bill- Willette party picked up. 
Lisianski; Bailey & Wil ett visited 
liberated kS Laysan Rail 
off PHR; landing impossible. 
PER - scientists ashore. 
Meeker - scientists ashore. 
Bird Island abeam. 
(Elschner aboard) 
increased rabbit nos.: seal 
(Brown) 
Bird Island visited 
Meeker visited 
off FFS. 
Laysan; rabbits greatly decreased; no albatross. 
Lisianski - "great many black and gray tern and frigate birds, a few 
Practically no rabbits or turtles were seen. 1 ' 
13 Sept, - PHR- boat to N. sand spit; about UO hair seals, and a few turtles• 
"great number of dead frigate birds and a few live ones.* 1 
1 Apr, 
3 Apr. 
1913: Thetis 
18 Mar. - Bird Is.; cutter damaged; coxswain inj. 
19 Mar. - off Necker; landing impossible ! 
20 Mar. - FFS ; 1 islet seen, 3>00 albatross, some boobies and tern. Caught 1 turtle| 
21 Mar - Rock - (La Perouse?) 
23 Mar - Laysan - too rough 
2li Mar. - Lisianski. "observed large numbers of albatrosses, frigatebirds, boobies, 
terns and shearwayers. Very little vegetation on island^ and very few rabbits 
seen. 
25 Mar® - ashore LManski, 
26 Mar. - off PHR - no landing possible, 
27 Mar* - off Kure - no landing possible, 
28 Mar, - ashore Kure, 
off PHR - no landing p, 
Laysan - Officers who visited the island reported that poachers had again 
raided the island for feathers. Dead birds were found in piles of five tm ten andl 
even iiO or 5>0. The brest feathers only were taken from the bi ds® In some cases t] 
the dead birds were found with the fleshy parts of the breast cut away. 200,000 
birds were estimated dead and rotting on the island. Laysan Albatross was the chit 
sufferer with others possibly in the following order: black-footed albatross, 
frigatebird, booby. 
Apr, - passed Gardiner Is. < 
6 Apr, - passed Bird Island. 
1916 Thetis. 
26 Jan, ~ passed Bird Isl. ~ 
27 Jan, - ashore Necker. 
28 Jan. FFS - off principal sand islet; 
30 Jan, - off Laysan, 
31 Jan. - off Laysan. @"A number of wedge-tailed Shearwaters flew on board, attr¬ 
acted by the vessel*s lights. One laid Its egg on deck.’ 1, 
2 F b. - PHR - ashore: sev. islets visited, 
5 Feb. - Lisiianski - ashore, 
offshore 
as above 
as above• 
landed Laysan. 
more birds than last year, no turtles. 
6 F P D, 
7 Fib 
8 Feb 
»b« 
10 F b. - passed Gardiner. 
11 Feb. - landed Necker. 12 
F e b. 
Bird Island - landed.. 
