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The---rsi^rd^vas leased by the Hawaiian Kingdom to the North Pacific 
Phosphate and Eertilizer Company for a period of 20 years from 29 March 1090 
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(Bryan, ). \ small wooden house was built at the southern end of 
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island, and Max Schlemmer, island manager for the guano company, planted 
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tobacco and released rabbits there sometime between 1901 and 1905. Only 
the highest quality guano was ever shipped out (Elschner, 15-5). 
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Sometime..early^in 190l a party of over 70 Japanese featner poacners 
landed on Lisianski. Captain A. P. Uiblack of the B.S.s . Iroquois reponced 
their presence in April 19 0l (Log of the U. S. S . fro quo is for 11 April 1901), 
and went ashore to warn them of their violation of customs and immigration 
laws. 
On 8 June 19 01 the United States Revenue Cutter Thetis , Captain 0. C. 
Hamlet, was dispatched from Honolulu to carry mail and supplies to Midway 
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Atoll, and on the return trip she was instructed to step at Lisianski ana 
Laysan islands, where Captain Hamlet was empowered to arrest any feather 
poachers who might be found. (Letter from 0. C. Hamlet, Captain, Revenue 
Cutter Service, to the Secretary of the.Treasury of the United States of 
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merica, dated 25 June 1901). 
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The Thetis anchored off the west side of Lisiansni early on io June. 
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Captain Hamlet, the ship's surgeon, an interpreter, a petty officer, and a 
boat crew went ashore. As they were coming in they "saw a number oi people 
coming across the south end of the island; they seemed. undecided, moved 
towards the/place we were heading for and then stopped at times.’ 1 Once 
they had been told, through the interpreter, that they were all to leave 
the island they were "like happy children... which seemed to be 
genuine. 
