noddies, 20 Gray backed Terns, end 2 frigates. I probably missed shore 
birds alone the fait and plovers inland. In the afternoon we saw 10 
frigates, and 1 Bed tailed Tropicbird. I found 2 fkulls of tropic- 
birds near collasped buildings. We collected 5 more cats today and 
it have seem 5 others, most of these are in very poor phsical condi¬ 
tion. We did get a large health male, had it it's stomach fish, wor¬ 
ry eal and bird, one female had elghttenn Hazards. Tonight 3 of os 
walked around the island looking for birds end cats finding more of 
the latter collecting 10 for blood samples and doing autopes on all 
of them to determine breeding condition end food habits. There were 
no more birds noted on the island during the night when we have noted 
during the day. The Boddy Colony did not seem larger, we returned to 
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camp after midnight. 
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24 March 1963 
We arose about 0630 began breaking camp and packing our gear 
to go back to the ship. We dicider to try everything in one load 
and we had to par load it drag it into the surf and then two men 
hold it with it's bow into the waves while the other three rush 
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to put ithe rest to of the gear. It was were difficult to stand on 
the slippery rocks and each wave would move the coat end those 
holding it in and out bet. We got it loaded end walked it out till 
the motor could be pjt down, sailor Jumped in and got it running 
and as soon as we broke through the next wave, we ell Jumped in, and 
out we went climbing up over the bracking waves and then falling down 
the back everyone getting thoroughly soaked before we got back to 
the ship. We unpacked and storaged @11 our gear, by this time the 
ship had gotten under way again, the hatch was closed and it was very 
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