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Extracts fro® Hodman* & 01 ary p* 4 
^11® i«t invasion Has admitted..****# few deer®pit jests used to 
©w* in late afternoon and crawi about wider the si®Iter, fearlessly**„ 
I shat several and found the hair scant and mangy sores op the posterior*, 
and all Horn? legs* Perhaps tais ©onditioii is due to a deficient diet* 
Just wtiat these rats subsist on pussies ®a, tegatetion Is uaterwed, 
I mark birds rwets and eggs and fledglings in fete®, day after day* 
so fete only likely food left is ndce and pt&mm4 and warioua seeds. 
In any ©went there are not may tat* m fete island, that is, tvom tktm 
to five thousand* They have no natural enemy here, yet sms force is 
'keeping taels auaabers do*®, much Ittete than one would think norm®!, 
coteidering the ease with which « rat can <could?) procucs bird*. eggs* 
Huge i®8 test up on southeast »*« msssufed S3 feet la length and S' feet 
in diameter* * 
“Planted some seeds ... fte coconut profit and the taro died and mil fete 
other seeds in mtm except lemons and a few feeble peppers** *Raia, did 
boat with, iutermltteat dawapo-rs tin after midnight,... • 
* mts Had dugnut fete seeds frost Half the eons.,.* *1 haws ulwefted 
rats scurrying fro® the seas edge, but knew of no reate® why rats 
stead be drawn to m element they so despise* * %ota*4 fete first 
scorpion to date but it escaped., 
ssweraI,IMMRiIs between three thirty and fire this morning,*.. 
also collected and narked a large aectioa of nesting boobies and 
collect; d six eggs intend to gather 15 or to per dev until the 
first off October..* 
^fte Hi ana on fledgling fiats, at* bursting into yellow banks of 
blo-wsOBts, ax tec fete rains *.•*, I4y estimate off the rat pooui-afeieii 
of five thousand ha* lowered to three thousand at the mat , they are 
thickest in fete petlphsrsl guano on Itasca rise...they mm not rery 
©client at nighttime. • ■ 
“I col lasted a total of f >urtee» a peel mesa off plant#.,,*® 
Itasca arrrived and party ashore at sunrise* *, Abraham took s m 
lettuce out t-a fete ship that he grew in his garden*.* Itasca departed 
for Rowland, 
MUy peering in fee tae no* two cistern I found a golden plover, one off 
the many I have noted for the first tins today. It mm, thin and blind,® 
^Vegetation Has taken on a wilted yellow asp® <*t,® 
