• AW EXTRACTS FROM mtC* RODMAN'S WC I RAKER fSSAND 
extracted by Soger Clapp* August f t IMS 
(Julios 
late summer and fell of l 
of the 
Cob*h tagedfticei who stayed on taker in t 
ratted materials deal primari iv with 
35 - Rinksjou en route to Baker 
8/7/35 » Landed on taker at 9:30 A.M* 
8/8/35 • ^kats swarmed about the supplies in droves 
8/t/3f - 
at dusk ** everyone else bad gone aboard to hear a radio program 
sated to th$ Kss feojftt b©£0** thfc Kink&Jou out for the Tt 
Island (howl and.) before raid-night*®* taking along the four tmm hoys 
for a reunion with their cosrades.* 
r 
S/10/35 - the terns IKW tttts to tease fctair Sftecrooe cries* All through the night 
tm ? elrcle about* n »fh© Island is fairly alive with hermit crabs. 
They seem to relish anything* m that refuse need only fee tossed on 
the ground and It mil soon disappear.*♦ 
8/11/35 
8/12/35 
^tarria sighted the Kinkajou at four fifteen* and at six thirty she how 
to* while the doctor ease ashore for a short taconoit«. sl In referents® 
to HclMd K«. bo„, Ro*« a sot tte *£££ to. S* 
* f e ^ m& developed sad «ech man baa set up his own establishing. 
7 ® -iafcajou tarty left (Howland) as soon as possible* much di sgusted 
with the state of affairs, and eager for another $1 lapse of taker whldt 
I# lorn and nvitlag «e8f>a*®d to I land.^At seven o’clock or thereabout* 
the Kinksjou *t>od out for Jarvis Island*. • 
In re£®i«a®e to tte brick cl sterna *1 was prepared to find one or two 
set of mtest® la each one* but all fo-uar ware filled uniformly with about 
inches m skeletal remains frost hapless bird* 
_ , ... .... ~ —^.*as well as sasij. 
a«strt^ of hermit testa* stalls* brisks* and dry batteries. 11 'They then 
cleanse out tanka fm gardens. Mated that tank number 1 *bad a great 4m? 
rare beme* (l» StXttan ntwfoer these). *M*sn* tta forswr (#3) might have 
fee retains of two thousand birds* no* one would then taws five thousand, 
sires* swat t&m the sun ... for on the east, and west aides of m*. one 
Cam! curl usly only in this tank) war# distinct piles of birds.* 1 
m^o planted this day. **®a the my to the post (where the taro was planted) 
X get*®red my first § t s taster ins* &nd a boobies . * *1 also plucked 
the red-tipped Bait rodder from two boatswain birds while Karri a held then. 
at*si8trise^ **8Sng bird* perhaps a curlew running along the sand 
