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past Wainen, and down the coast to Haleiwn. About three miles rv®rth 
of Haleiva on Ft. 03 I picked up a DOR mongoose in very good shape which 
I hope to make a specimen of. Wo stopped at Haleiva for a fish dinner 
of ulna and Mahixaahi, It was quite good. We then left Rt. 83 and turned 
south down Rt. 82 , meeting Rt. 99 at Wahiawa. By this time it was dark 
and we continued down 99 to Pearl City, where we got back on Rt. 90 and 
came back to the ship, - o •' ' • =’ 5 
If Feb. 1963 
The ship got underway at 0830 this morning and steamed out to the 
mouth of the harbor to pick up ammunition for her three inch gun. We left 
the munitif ons depot about 1030 and headed for lFrench Frigate Shoal. Th 
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wind was strong and the sea fairly choppy, and it wasn't too long before 
I was feeling rather cmesy. 
We saw two brown boobies as we left the harbor, one sitting on a buoy 
and the other flying out ahead of the ship. Shortly' after noon the first 
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black-footed ahbatross flew past the ship. Soon after I observed two 
birds sitting on the water which I thought vere shearwaters, o Several 
more of these birds began to follow the ship and it soon became apparent 
that they were pomerlne jaegers. From time to tsimfc we had as many' as six 
or eight following close off the stern, 3 We threw out bits of squid but neither 
they nor the albatross shoved mch interest in them. About 1^5 Bob 
collected two of the jaegers. 
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Just before 1400 I saw my first Laysan albatross at sea, but it did 
not come close to the sip. W E saw some terns later this afternoon but 
were not able to identify them. About 1330 we decided that the term’s we 
were seeing were sooty terms, as by this time some had come fairly close 
to the ship. They seem to 
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