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Saturday 
3-24-23- 3 
.riud so the long-planned trip to Laysan begins. Never were happier 
auspices from an ideal equipment to the heartiest of , send-offs from the 
^ “O.cion en iiusss ; tne Colonel and Sandburg, to Loyd and Albert to 
hero vioh the lo checxea pieces of luggage and the 11 hand pieces! So 
here's hoping! Anyway, we shall see in what we shall see! 
Sunday 3-25-23 Thin Fog Wind 4-6 (N.W.) Air 54°, Water 54° 
; Pacific Ocean Sea Rough N.W. Course 260° 
Lat. 32°53’N. 
Long. 123°55’W. 
Distance today 286 m., Distance to go 1942 m. 
Day 22 hrs. 49 min. 
to 
Average speed 12.6 (All readings daily at noon) 
Wandered out to the stern immediately after breakfast and found that 
the Western Gulls had deserted us during the night. Not one of the species 
remained. Their place had been taken by a flock that totalled 26 birds at 
ios peak aooux 9-30 when refuse from the galley was thrown over. Six of 
tnese were Glaucous-winged Gulls. The other twenty stocky light-mantled 
birds were almost as certainly Herring Gulls. 
About 11:00 a lone dark albatross hove in sight and I watched the 
ma-vel o± los slight. oif & on till noon when it was joined by 2 more birds. 
They were unquestionably Diomedia nigripes. Several times they settled on 
rhe water in our wake and picked up morsels with up-raised wings and a 
petrel like outline. This sp. is known to the sailors as the "dark (or 
Drown - or "clack") gooney." I have not heard th 
em pronounce it "gony" 
fisher spe_i.ls it in his 1902 Laysan report. They differentiate i 
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e "light (or "white") gooney" which, they say never shows up till 
