4-12-23 
m. 
Sow the biggest ear-wig of my life under a rock in the tern colony and 
got some for Fullaway. 
y/ k 
At supper tonight a Man-o’war bird actually seized, upset and knocked 
down into the water a bird I took at a distance to be P. cuneatus. There 
are so few boobies and so many hundreds or thousands of Fregata that the 
barter musr prey chiefly on some other species probably cuneatus. I had 
no idea how rough the darn things were with their unwilling hosts and pur¬ 
veyors . 
barer - Schlemmer & the Filipino boy have just come in with 30 craw- 
fisn 1 an eel to show for 2 hrs^ "Jacking" and spearing on the reef, and 
rhe whale boat with a "shore leave" gang has just put off with 75 more. 
As Wetmore says, "Any man who couldn't find food on this island would starve 
to death in a grocery store". 
Friday 4-13-23 
Clear No. E. Wind - Temp. 7:00 AM-: Dry 70° Wet 68 
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Laysan Id. 
R.H. 90/o 
Noon 89° 6:00 PM 78 
j^ack'a las t time to the Tern colony to get the morning light on the 
only Love Tern juv. that has hatched. Remarkable propensity for clinging 
despite his webbed feet is probably a result of the arboreal life of the 
yng. He grips your finger and balances and clambers about almost more 
nimbly than the yng of perching birds. Eis home on a point of rock is 
oely 4 fees or so above the tidal pool into which the water flows from a 
suoterranean channel under the coral limestone dike. From his perch he 
-an see swarms of little' fry just suited to his needs. When it comes 
feeding time his gentle parent makes a 4 foo 
t plunge from her (his) post 
