gstfttcts from Rodman 1 a SiWiy P* g 
8/13/3$ * In raffsIrene® to boobies w It would fee easy to gather sesavsi dossils (of eggs) 
by searching a little hat I am still Wk*m,'sm& by the raucous scseatai 
of the Imstardt ****** 
®^if/35 * (Evidently had eoraldarable difficulty with with rats getting Into the 
food supply#) "They hsve learned to take the lids off coat'’nets even to 
pwh the large vegetable tins off the top#** 
"Crabs or sent® hid eatefn the center of two pieces of taro stranded 
fey receding water* * Kotos that Husain had bran on PALMESA and FAHUIJ© 
on the Dickinson prior to this date* 
3/10/35 • morning 1 traced a mysterious whistling that 1 had heard now mi 
then for days to the rating call of the rale feosMe.*" ss&a&n desert IsMi 
a skypeintlsg display between two Mrds* 
%t ’Hidden there rate the usual group of snail mad lag birds with 
long curled Mils* they hare an settle whistle* easily imitated* There 
mum to be only a dosea or so on the island# 11 Motes that flarrists 
board has part of the name "Qtrrtal* cm it Instead of (Thialcs 
it ray have been the result of a shipwreck.) 
♦‘Squashes and peas base sprouted and t expect the potatoes to' cense 
oat by Thursday. * 
(Describes a Trfdscns in his notes*) 
3/31/35 » * The taro has soured# and crabs have eaten several tubers* so I pulled 
them «p s and reset them in gallon tins. * In reference to rats *2 
shaken fro* fitful sleep a dosen tiara ratify night# at the sound of 
them sepaling and- thumping around* " 
8/23/35 * Nearly fledged boobies mm fed by their parents up to their first flight* 11 ’ 
3/24/3$ * * gained* (Ho rant ion of rain back through 18th) Curias s gust of rain 
all the setting feooMes folded up easily with their heads an their becks*" 
‘frigates rare rater lagged and hundreds were earth bound# 1 * 
8/23/35 « "A few( frigates) are nesting on the far south-east end* 1 * "Strangely 
enstt^i 1 haw at yet observed a feoobie actually relinquish Its fish* 
blmys they see® to sweep safely to earth#*’ «f plucked three long tail 
feathers from boatswain MSds. * "Keating MMk birds ara hard to 
find and are lest at unbled on unexpectedly* * 
8/18/35 *(" Ksiden* apparently raters to the gush® pit. Redman mentions 
Frigate- doraed in he rater there and mentions another a fra days earlier*) 
8/23/35 - Remarks tint lie raw « Frigate wake a Booby disgorge* 
8/30/35 * (Koto that Rodman does not rant ion the presence of terns in August* 
Obviously no sooty tern here this period* SEC*) 
