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Wetmore--Journal 
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Flat spaces had been made by building up a foot or two where necessary and in 
some cases were partly enclosed by low walls. The largest was 15 x 30 feet. 
Along the northern and western borders blocks of stones two to four feet high 
a foot to two feet wide and six inches through irere stood on end at 
distances of from two to four feet. In general these blocks were rectangular. 
One, two or more were placed inihe centereorfat some other point within the 
enclosure. One or two were of rounded form and were water worn apparently 
brought up from the beach. 
dune 19 —Today I worked farther out along the slopes of the island finding 
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them rough and rocky with slight soil and little vegetation. Colonies of Red-footed 
and Frigatebirds wherever there are any shrubs. Blue-faced Boobies and 
two species of Albatross are distributed over the higher slopes. Sooty And Gray- 
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backed Terns are everywhere. 
%u summits of the hills are occupied by heiaus of the type previously 
described: the erect stones face indifferently on all sides but nearly 
always toward the open sea. 
The relative fearlessness of birds here is interesting. Roddies are 
alert and fly before danger is near. Gray-backed and Sooty Ternsare more 
fearless but still are difficult to catch. Albatross, frigatebirds and 
boobies are indifferent to our presence. The hosts of terns area 
the dominant fraction of ;he bird life. Wedge-tailed Shearwaters are common 
but not abundat. Bulwer's Petrels are in evidence only at night, when they cir¬ 
cle about our camp. 
The sides of the island are more or less sheer and to visit the various rock 
platforms athe the water's edge requires considerable labor in climbing about. 
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June 20--Recker Island is a huge rock that rises in 5 more or less well defined 
peaks connected by low ridges with a 6th point, at the northwest set off and 
