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^ ne oamera outiit "broken out" and ready for use. They were so tame that 
..he ? harwy bothered to wake up even when he shot the o* close beside her. The o’ 
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was aingy yellowish -- the 9 a handsome mole gray. The sailors who w 
were 
givon shore leave got within 5 1 of another pair and put them to sea. I'm 
mourning the fact, for stupid as they are when once they have "hauled out" 
they are keen of scent according to Schlemmer and will not land where then 
i s fresh man scent or disturbance. 
Half 
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inile south oi camp in another cove something like Camo Cove we 
came on 5 of the big green Turtles (Chelone midas 
) fast asleep 
ori Sand. Tne largest would have gone well over 200 pounds. "Them ain*t 
big ones” was Schlemmer's only reply to my interest in their bulk. 
After lunch we broke out a camera and made a more extended reconnaissance 
10 the south. Our turtles were gone, frightened and plagued by the sailors 
v^io uic 1-Xe a ounch oi wild kids out of school. Followed the high sand 
rid. 
ge down the west shore through scattered Laysan Albatrosses and thousands 
upon thousands oi Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. The monotonous regularity with 
vn-.cn one 1 s loot-preaks thru apparently hard sand into their burrows of 
jormer years is exceedingly wearing on temper and legs. The south end is 
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buttressed with sheer rock ledges ten to fifteen ft. high of coral lime¬ 
stone. Against these the long rollers break in perpendicular spume. Since 
tfie prevailing fair, wind (h.E. Trade)fe.off shore it leaves a level dry rock 
1 lc ^& e Gr oixe. On tne seaward side there are hollowed ledges that make 
fascinating natural shallow aquaria sometimes ten feet above high tide. On 
on- land side is a rock-choked depression into which.a pool of sea water 
e*iv» rrp. c? t "h 
■u'scb i-hru a hole under th 
e. c.ute. On "the Droken blocks just above the 
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.andrecs, ii noL thousands of Hawaiian Terns are 
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ne nests contain a single lightly marked egg. Half are 
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st ouiiQing,Among them and also on top of the dike almost in the spray of 
