in the morning which drove in through the front of the tent, seeking 
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soje of our gear again. fhe day was glear and windy, we ell bandid 
chicks in the morning, attempting to do all of the black chicks on 
island. In the afternoon we begein be&king camp and pecking our gear 
to return to the ship. All gear was storaged alway and will shave tobe 
dried at Midway over the weekend. We left ad for Midway about 1630 
end will arrive there tomorrow morning . 
9 March 1963 
Arrived at Midway o500 end anchored off the islend, went into 
the feul about 0800. Ferd, Bob, and I went to see Lt. McDaniel about 
the bird shipment end the formers orders, and found out that everything 
had finailly cleared. It had been necesspry for me to send a special 
message to Capt. Sudduth from Pearl Hermes via the ship while we were 
there as four days ago there had no orders cut for Fred as yet. We 
bought some supplies for southern leg of the trip all of us meet with 
Mr. Bushman later in the morning and Bcb and I talked to him again this 
afternoon about problems we encounted on the trip, being a field man 
himself he was very simpathic and entends to carry the information 
back to Capt. Suddeth. The rest of the afternoon and evening we 
odd chores . The vweather was poor all day with rain and wind and we 
had no opportunities to clean up gear. Allen received word by mail 
today that his father was quite sick and that his mother wished him 
to come home, he'd comiirmed this by ham raiio tonight and I will 
attempt to get him off tomorrow. 
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