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ooat • i. £,0^ oil with oni.y a stubbed toe, but Rullaway vent sprawling 
headover heels and must' have bruised himself considerably. 
•oall & Caum stayed aboard and about 9-00 the ship got under way to let 
ball & caum do some off snore "trawling and "dredging" for marine inverted: 
etc. 
Wind bloving so hard that movies in the open were out of the question, 
ov^iemmer Sc 1 vent down to the protected hollow or "blow-hole" behind the 
natural dike at the so: end and made a dozen plates or so. On the way bad 
we ran into 5 turtles and made some film of Eric "rollin'' them etc. They 
are helpless on their backs but the big ones are fiends to turn. (Hence 
I suppose "turn turtle"). Brought in a small one of perhaps 50 lbs. to 
pof 
In making the tern stills the colony was so dense I had to sacrifice 
some of the eggs that were under or too near the tripod, by keeping the 
parents on me nest too long. Brought in 4 Qr 5 of the Love Tern eggs. 
Surf too high to land a boat this evening. 
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Wednesday 4--11-23 Cloudy early - clear - No. e. wind - Temp. 8:00 AM 
Dry 70° Wet 65° Eel. Hum. 77 % 
Temp. 700 AM 64° 
Mo Temp. 78 ° 6:00 PM 68 ° 
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Cloudy till 9-00 s 6 fooled about camp making some plates of a Red¬ 
tailed Tropic Bird that insists on coming into the kitchen and when not 
allowed to do that sits outside the door. 
"arf still breaking occasionally clear across the narrow channel, but 
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0:30 they got out the whale boat with all the jackies in life belt 
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through easily enough, bringing Wilson ashore for the day and 
ates 
so 
