the state roomeare speceous end comfortable and the air conditi ning 
Is wonderful it appears that we will have no trouble with se ; sickness, 
it appears that we will have the utmost cooperation of the ships 
officers and crue, we hipe that the "birds will he as cooperative. 
Day 2 
The weather thle day has "been clear end warm with scatter light 
clouds. The wind has been predominately from the east at about 10 note 
no rain. 
We have decided that two people th-t two on hello deck 
provide an adequate watch if this same practice is followed in the 
future I would suggest that lone of our large tent flies be mounted 
on the helllo deck this is possible there are places on the deck 
where it could bet tied down to provide a little shade for the eru# 
working up there. 
Birds have been quite numerous todey end we have collected 
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eight pages of observations. Shearwaters and common we have seen 
several tropicbirds of both species many sooty trrns, some Christmas 
Island Shearwaters, some Bulwer’s Petrel, and several Manx Shearwaters 
with little question about the identity. We had end unidentified Tern 
this afternoon the glimpse which we got suggest that there were two 
Blsck Naped or Artie Terns we could not see bill color. We don’t want 
to do any collecting till we reach the study areh t-i±l -we- r e ach 
the dtudy a as we were directed by Phil end more resently Ur. BushwfiP. 
— *—_ sre receiving very fine treatment on the ship, we keep two 
people on watch ell the time thus having two eating late meals after 
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being releaved by eating at the regular hours, this is no problem 
