all of the Island* observed and the lagoon are® inside the atoll was 
filled with whitecspps. It is my gerenal impression from passing 
these islands today that there will be le'-st salt spray and probabtl 
a certain amount of water being blown across them in any rough weather. 
We could not agree on the height and size of the tower though is appears 
to be about 20 feet tall. We arrived midway about 1700 this evening 
after super the field party went ashore and talked with Chen Robins 
and John Waters for several hours. 
16 February 1963 
The field spent most of this morning cleaning up our gear in the 
aft hole and working on the specimens we had collected at Laysan and 
Lisianski. We also put our equipment back in order in the storage 
area the trunk which was lashed on deck was found to be have full 
of s alt water. The sectons of the trunk have separated inside and 
all it's metal parts are badly -rusted. Our sheets and blankets were 
soaked end green dye the ladder had run all through the former. These 
were sent off to the laundry at Midway. We sent up the tents to dry 
off and hung out the packs and their mattresses also. Two dictet mag¬ 
azines which were in the trunk fortunately empty ones are apparently 
ruined, and also two head lights all of the batteries in them have 
leaked out and mirroring is pelllng off the spots. There were about 
eight rolls of polaroid film tin the trunk still sealed in foil, so 
we do not know whether they are ruined or not. All of the rest of the 
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equipment was thoroughly soaked and we spread it out to dry and throw 
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