Wetmore--J ournal 
June 21—[Tanager] The afternoon was occupied in making sounding 
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southeas 
of Necker in search for a shoal which is charted but which seems to be - 
non-existent. 
Anderson today climbed to a cave on keeker-and dug out a very curious 
'implement whose use.is problematical. It is a T-shaped form with a hopk 
ax one end. King suggests that it was used in repairing nets. It was of 
rather coarse grained ttone'but was smoothly worked. 
June 22—[French Frigate Shoals] ...went around the northern end into the lee 
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on the south passing near the rock and continuing in to what is shown as the 
main island* We went over to this at eleven and I was greatly disappointed 
to find it much smaller than is indicated on the charts. It is elongated. 
slightly curving in shape and according to an accurate map made by Judd 1890 feet 
long by 400 feet wide at the widest part. On the chart it is shown as over 
a mile long. 
The reef extended along the southern side so that the surf boat was 
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forced to detour through a break to get in... 
The surface of the Hand is coarse coral sand with many fragments of large 
shells. It is filled with shearwater holes and.to. is 
The party here consists of Judd, Thaanum, Grant, Anderson,uGchlemmer, Wetmore 
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end George Higgs, colored cook. Palmer, Bryan,1 Gaum and Cartwright, work 
from aboard ship. 
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., .We visited a small sand spit a short distance east of East Island as 
we have called the island on which camp is located but found it a n 
elongate island 60 yards long by 10 wide, merely a ridge of sand rising .5 
feet about the water -and evidently swept. A few Noddies rested on one end 
and I killed on Hawaiian tern from a little flock that swept past. 
We continued from here northeast nearly to the end of the reef and then 
