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had left the mouth of the harbor. We also began recording jaegers again, 
a very short time after we had left the harbor. There were many jaegers 
around the ship from about 1200 until dark about 1900. Most of these 
seemed to be coming in from the sea, and many did not stop to follow the 
ship but flew on by towards land* We also observed several red-footed 
boobies flying toward land this evening. The boobies have a characteristic 
flight and diving pattern• The brown is of course quite dark, and both the 
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masked and the red-footed are white with prominent black wing patches, but 
the masked also has prominant black patches on its tail and the red-footed 
has a pure white tail, 
- K. * 
I am feeling fine tonight and I hope that I have seen the end of my 
seasickness. I still do not think we will be able to do much on the fantail 
or in the hold because of the fumes and th? pitching of the ship. The night 
tonight has been beautiful and inspiring, but very lonely also so very far 
from home. I hope that we will have good days while we are at sea so that 
they will be interesting and go rapidly till we get to the islands. 
8 February. 1963 
The seas got much rougher during the night, and many of the sailors 
have told me that this is one of the worst ships to be on because it rolls 
so much due to its round bottom* Mfcr feelings of dizziness and nausea have 
increased today, and none of the other fellows are feeling too well either. 
Two of them have been in their bunks most of the day. Even if one is able to 
keep some food down, and this itself is somewhat of a challenge as the ward 
room where we eat is the foreward most room of the ship and thus very susceptable 
