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George 3. 
October 10, 19^4 
After eight days on board the Shearwater we arrived at 
iaongi Atoll later on the afternoon of the 10th of Oot. 
1964 . I'he voyage was both dull and lonesome. My days were 
uninterrupted except for bird observations;the most notable 
were ialefotted Shearwaters and O'ookes Petrals both of 
which 1 have never seen, though i sighted the Atoll at 
dawn it was not until inidfay that a channel was found deep 
enough for our two rubber rafts and it was not until flood 
tide that the current through this passage had abated 
eno igh to allow us through. On landing we made camp on 
the lee shore of Sibylla Island facing the lagoon. After 
dark I banded xied-footed Boobies which were nesting 
high in the Scavola, I returned to camp v/ell after midnight. 
October 11, 1964 
it was not until dawn that I really saw this Island and 
it is truly magnificent, A long arc of sandy-coral beach 
backed by dense Scavola. ihe Atoll has but one mile of land 
area although there are some twenty six miles of beach, 
thus the islands are nothine- more than a strio of sand 
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curving inward on the lagoon. Here, by the way, were 
sharks most 
of which wwre no more than four feet in length 
though from the raft passing through the swift current 
of the Atoll they looked much larger. Also it is the 
home of the killer clam one of the most beautiful mollusks 
1 have ever seen although their shells are dull, their 
mantles maybe abserved in beautiful green s and blues, and 
even delicate reds. 
i'he outer beach which 1 walked that morning in hopes 
of collecting some new shore birds presented a new picture. 
Here the wild desolate sea rushed against the rough coral 
beach, its ferocity was attested to by the hulls’of three 
ships whose sad graves must haye been perpertrated by faulty 
navigation. All three were Japanese 
which was not recorded on the chart 
various huts erected by the sailors 
fishing vessels, one of 
Also along the beach were 
of these wrecks as they 
