Then late this afternoon I found outthet his sen w s only taking weather 
information every six hours, we said that we wanted every hour. 
Bushman said, that ell our request for orders, or materiels 
end the like should come through Domke’s office and that Trussell*® 
office should not he doing these things for us, as DomKe wants to 
know personally what all going on. We had a hit of a spat about this, 
as I said felt that we were getting more things done through the 
Washington Office. Bushman does not appear to he very sharp on his 
hird identification at sea and has done very little with us so far, 
though he has indicated a wellingness to help on a couple of occf slon 
we have had arguments with him about the identity of a hird when 
there was no ground what so ever for his identlcatlon disagreeing with 
ours. 
We started three hour w*tchs around the clock, with two men 
per watch and one man from 21 to 2400, 24 to 0300, and 0300 to 600 today. 
Mr. Bushman is taking one watch each day and this plus staggering our five 
men has given us some free time to catch up on notes and sleep and to make 
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some more lessurely observations on the hird. 
Between 2000 and 2400 today the weather deteriorated coneiderablly 
so that when up for the 02300 w^tch we heading right Into a 20 not wind 
from the northeast, the sea was quite rough and the waves were sending 
drinching showers up over the hello deck. We turned on all the aft 
flood lights ( the forward ones interfere with navigation ) in hopes 
of attracting some wind driven birds hut no birds were recorded. 
Bay 7 
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