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also saw another curlew run in behind us and smash a Blue-faced Booby egg 
a moment after we had unintentionally frightened the owner from her eggs. 
b. cyanops is more common at this end of the lagoon. We passed perhap 
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two dozen scattered nests. All were on the ground, of course, and those 
noted contained two egg's or 1 egg and 1 young. Apparently, from 6 or 8 
new born LjOum^ & pipped eggs, the "colony” is beginning to hatch today 
with considerable uniformity. I quote colony because they are in no wise 
so gregarious as S. piscator. We have found no piscator nests except those 
crowded together in the one ironwood tree & 2 dead bushes near the houses. 
My ear has got injected and will have to be incised, so I came aboard 
ar noon in the oelief Wilson was to follow immediately in the dingey. Eow- 
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ever, he did not come off until the last boat so I am having to spend the 
night aboard. Wilson lanced ear down in "hospital room". I have never 
had a minor operation under less pleasant conditions than sitting on a box 
in.a sea way down in the stink below decks while a navy surgeon cuts & 
caroolizes with raw acid: -how. T shall have to sleep ,: below" for fear of 
catching cold in said ear. Got two square meals out of it at officers mess 
anywayI 
Tuesday h-10-23 
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Clear, high Ho. e. wind 
Between the ear and the bed bugs I put in a second rate night in the 
foul air below decks, and was glad enough to roll out at 6:00. 
7:00 they put over uhe whale coat and landed a work party of two me 
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k'3 unisn shovelling me send gut. of the main house where Wetmore and The 
r-snop crowd are -o work. Tire wind and sea had come up during "the night. 
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and it was wet tricky work getting from the Jacob ! s ladder to the whale 
