a party which included William 
Miller of the department of com¬ 
merce, Custom! Collector J. Wal¬ 
ter Doyle, an army officer and 
Fullard-Leo, owner of Palmyra 
island. The coast guard cutter 
brought some new Kamehameha ' 
boys to replace those already sta¬ 
tioned on the island. 
MADE COLLECTIONS 
My botanical survey of Baker 
revealed a total of IS plants on 
the island, one more than/ were 
reported by the Whipootwill sur¬ 
vey of 1924. I also collected over 
?f0 species of marine shells.' In 
my researches I found an ancient 
well site and afterward stumpled 
upon several broken poi pounders, 
evidence of native life on Baker. 
AH the pounders varied in design 
and size and only had a definite 
resemblance Is the Hawaiian im¬ 
plement I was familiar with. 
I Freon the romantic as well as the 
; historic standpoint I would much 
rather they Indicate Tongan or 
Tahitian delation instead of 
Hawaiian, 3 0. Hague must have 
completely overlooked this arche¬ 
ology during his sojourn in 1859. 
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of 'angltit* cvwftsinen, there mus 
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of pouitder* brought to perfection 
romp# AiicnsNT graves 
At o» wen i found four circu¬ 
lar depressions, each 10 feet h 
diameter and surrounded by cora 
Slabs, some of them still upright 
.One depression had a heart! 
nearby, lined with inverted tri- 
/dacna halves in which ashes were 
still packed. I also found similai 
megaliths along the coast from 
Waimea WftUey to the southeasl 
marker. Host of them were mi 
iransveri^ north and south 
that grave*, If these mad# burial 
places, wdtiJd be oriented with 
the sun’s peth. Between Waimea 
and the wreck opposite the work¬ 
shop there were traces of a small 
rectangular arrangement, that 
eepf have been a heieu or shrtne. 
area along the southeast 
4IM®* yielded the only evidence 
0 mUv* occupation. Likely the 
proximity to moist cultivable 
basins and the abundance of 
g ildipg jiabs kept them from 
on the higher western 
periphery. 
Vegetation on Baker was ex¬ 
tremely scrofulous, considerable 
patches throughout the island be¬ 
ing dead. Mice, I noticed, ate the 
island pigweed, a vegetation white 
men find eatable when faced with 
starvation, \t is recorded that one 
Cspt. Stenbeek and a group of 
laborers lived six months on Mal¬ 
den island after their canned pro¬ 
vision# gave out, their only veg¬ 
etable being pigweed. 
As mr scheduled stay on Baker 
came t<? a close we began to scan 
the horizon daily seeking the sail 
of the Kinkajou. And each day 
we waited the surf seemed to beat 
higher and wilder on the coast. 
We began to wonder how, when 
did come, we would get off 
the island. 
Filially, on November 28, Har¬ 
ris espied the ship tossing in the 
heavy sea, a tiny speck on the 
horizon. The surf that day seemed 
to be at it* wildest. T wondered 
ow a ship’s boat could get 
through or how we could get out 
to the Kinkajou. 
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