the state roomsare spaeeous end comfortable and the air condlti ning 
is wonderful it appears that we will have no trouble with se? sickness, 
it appears that we will hare the utmost cooperation of the ships 
officers and crue, we hipe that the birds will be as cooperative. 
Day 2 
The weather this day has been clear and warm with scatter light 
clouds. The wind has been predominately from the east at about 10 note 
no rain. 
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We have decided that two people th^t two on hej'6 • 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 hellio deck this is possible there are places on the deck 
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where it could bet tied down to provide a little shade for the crue 
working up there. 
Birds have been quite numerous tocUy and we have collected 
eight pages of observations. Shearwaters and. common we have seen 
several tropiebirds of both species many sooty trrns, some Christmas 
Island Shearwaters, some Bulwer’s Petrel, end several Manx Shearwaters 
with little question about the identity. Ve had and unidentified Tern 
this afternoon the glimpse which we got suggest that there were two 
Black Neped or Artie Terns we could not see bill color. We don’t want 
to do any collecting till we reach the study ar e till we reach 
the dtudy a as we were directed by Phil and more resently Mr. BuskonMu. 
We are receiving very fine treatment on the ship, we keep two 
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people on watch all 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 
