it has plenty for our needs also If we are suck here for several days 
yet.We probably have enough sea rations for two days yet, so we hope 
that the see situation will improve in the next few days. I am afraid 
that we will all he catching cold if we have to spend many more nights 
as cold as we have been the last two. Perhaps today we should try to 
collect some drift wood eround the island so that we may have a fire 
this evening. The ship pulled up anchor early this morning end steamed 
off around the northern side of the island, either th get out of the 
ruff seas or perhaps to look for another calmer landing somewhere else 
around the islands . We have no contact with the ship because they did 
not send a radio ashore with us. At eleven hundred the captain and the 
bosun appeared over the crest of the island, with Fred who had gone 
around to the far side of the island to collect some shore birds 
earlier this morning. They have found another landing which will 
probably serve us for a few hours and they advise that we had better 
hurriedly pack our gear and get back aboard the ship. We then began 
bre 4 king camp and pecking our gear and the long arduous chore of haul¬ 
ing all our equipment aboxit a mile across the island , around the lagoon 
end across the large unvegetsted area on the northern part of the 
island. Three trips were necessary and the weight of our loads cense 
us to break eontlnuely through the soil and fall petrel burrows up to 
our knees. Three trips were then necessary in the small boat to get 
everything back to the ship. The wind shifted back to the northeast 
this morning and by the time the boats came back for the second load 
there were three to four foot waves breaking through this lending. 
The rubber craft broaehed about thirty feet from shore on the second 
