and have thus naturally formed on the lee side of the islands with 
respect to these trades. With the SW winds we are presently encountering 
it will be very difficult to utilize any of the normal landings at 
these islands and unless we are able to find some landings on the 
east side of the islands, we will probably be unable to go ashore. 
same at 
fe plan to stop at Laysan and go ashore for two days; the 
Lisianski and then go on to Pearl and Hermes. If it is impossible 
to land on ary of these Islands, we will go on to Midway and collect 
blood sanroles and then advise DESERET of the weather problem and ask 
if they wish us to start south earlier than we had originally planned. 
The efficiency of the field party members has been decreased considerably 
due to our seasickness and our inability to keep food in our stomachs. 
And three of the party have been in their bunks most of the last two 
days. It is the general feeling among the party members that the 
weather situation should have been more closely examined before under¬ 
taking this present trip. The pitching and rolling of the ship makes 
it impossible to do any work below decks, so even if we were able to 
get ashore somewhere we will be quite unable to prepare the skins and 
blood samples bbak on the ship. The ship can only be anchored by the 
bow so that even when anchored in this type of sea, the birds which we 
are sighting at sea seldom corns slose to the ship. Chumming on the 
first day appeared to have no effect in bringing in the birds which 
were following the ship. There has been no chummlngathe past two days. 
As mentioned previously, the sea is still breaking over the bow, running 
down amidships and out across the fan-tail. We have been conducting 
the bird watch from the flying bridge which gets us up out of much of 
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