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On January 19 the hoarding party sent ashore at Lisianski found and 
arrested eight more Japanese poachers, and confiscated additional plumage 
(ibid, for 19 and 20 January 1910). ■ — 
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The Thetis stopped at the othei* islands of the fefuge on this trip, 
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hut found no other indications of poaching (ibid, for 21, 22, 23 and 29 January 
j • She returned to Honolulu on 2 February 1910, and the 15 Japanese poachers 
vere turned oyer to U. S. Marshall Hendry ( ibid , for 2 February 1910)* The 
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plumage from an estimated 200,000 albatrosses^ valued at $112,000 was turned 
over to customs agents ( Paradise of the Pacific , 3 February 1910). 
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The Thetis visited Lisianski on 1 September 1910 (Log of the Revenue 
Cutter Thetis for 1 September 1910). The shore party found no signs of human \ 
habitation and reported that the notices regarding the bird reservation were 
still intact. - - On 28 April 1911 she again stopped at Lisianski, and ■ 
the shore party reported no indications of the island being recently inhabited, 
and that conditions were practically unchanged since the previous visit ( ibid . 
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for 28 April 1911). The cutter anchored off Lisianski on 12 March 1915, and 
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A. M. Bailey and G. Willett went ashore to examine the island (ibid , for 12 
March 1915). The party liberated A5 Laysan Rails, Collected some rabbits and 
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one seal, and reported that conditions on the island Were unchanged, except 
that there was a large increase in the number of rabbits found. 
Bailey (1956) found the island a barren waste of sand, largely due to 
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the destruction of the vegetation by rabbits. A couple of shacks, which had 
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been built by the Japanese, were found. v All of the sea birds seed on Laysan, 
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with the exception of Fairy Terns and Red-tailed Tropicbirds, were noted, and, 
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in addition, numerous Brown Boobies were observed. 
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