work when and where weather conditions allow us. If it is impossible 
to land a party on Pearl Hermes at this time, we will either return 
to Laysan or Lisianski or go on to Midway. The Project leader checked 
with United Airlines today to find out why we had not heard from them 
on the bird shipment and found out that they had decided they did not 
want to handle the shipment. McFarlane and Sibley were then taken to 
Honolulu International Airport to try to made arrangements with another 
airline while Wirt 2 continued in his attempts to procure a second rubber 
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boat. Arrangements were made with Northwest Orient to ship the birds 
from Honolulu via Seattle to Dulles Airport. There will be a Zb hours 
delay in the shipment between the arrival of the MATS plane and the 
take-off of Northwest Orient. We must arrange for a Navy truck to 
move tbs birds from the Hickam Field to International Airport. The 
project was advised that the ship would probably not get underway 
to morrow as the repairs to the anchor windlass are not progressing 
satisfactorily and the cable that was burned in the fire has not yet 
been replaced. 
1 February 1963 
Returned rented car this morning, rest of morning was spent in 
installing replacement freezer and setting up our equipment on the 
tables in the aft hold, stowing and arranging equipment in trunks in 
the aft holdci All of the equipment has now been sorted, those items 
which will not be needed iianedlately have been placed in trunks in the 
forward hold. In the aft hold we have arranged everything in 6 shelves 
along the port bulkhead and in 8 trunks secured to the deck in such 
fashion that h of them may be opened without undoing their securing 
ropes. Large trunk no. 15 has been secured on a table area fastened 
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