of the trip. Baker has military surpplus left on it from World War IT, 
including gasoline and TNT, owho's containers are deteriorating, vehicles, 
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planes , and buildings. It was decided to consintrate our effords about 
six days, on Hawland and spent one afternoon night and the flllowing 
day on Baker, before going on to Canton. We will stay over night before 
heading back to Pearl. ETA there is now 5 April. The party spent most 
of the rest of the afternoon sleeping. Late this afternoon we started 
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shotting Black footed Albatross off the stern in an attempt to see how 
long It took for a new one to move in. Five were shot but too many 
were following at this time and our results were not conculaive. 
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Two of us spent most of the day on the Sand Tail, while the 
third maintained watch on the flying bridge up to four black fott's 
were following as eonsetiie during the day, They were not approaching 
closely and we had a h*rd time killing them. At 1700 there were still 
two black foot’s far astren. We observed Laysen about the ship at four 
different tires up to 1730 today. Three tiles we noted shearwaters 
or petrels but never close enough for a identification. We also noted 
tow Sooty Terns and immature Red footed Booby. Afout 1745 an unidentified 
bird was bollected from the . It looks very much a booby perhaps 
an immature but, the peck seems more curved and the fleshy earea around 
the eye is light violet. The feet ere flesh end look ticie&l booby, most 
of the back is grayish brown with the under parts graish on the breet, 
but whitest on the billy. About 1840 we noted another similar looking 
brid and an immature red footed booby, the brown bird was collected 
from the bow and as the ship begain to maneuver to pick it up the 
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