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x% n1 w< * o’olooJc* with food and water ashore* the surf had 
increased until X refused further materials. We laahod oar supplies 
for safety in various crannies and carried our cote and hooding to a 
little cave, the only available apnfc^w?-*- oan*> as the stoop slopoe 
offered on level spots for teats, With this strenuous war* ocstplotod 
we lay for a few moments on our cot a before falling asleep. Oho limits 
of the ship tossed a short distance offshore. While sixty foot bclov; us 
oaa e the steady crash and jar of huge seas on the roo* lodges, She 
bean of the saartfaight, icept on far a tine to assist us in arranging 
our supplies, rose and fell, now illuminating the wonderful green and 
white of the foaming water and now the shite or dar* brokets o* toms, 
boobies, and other sea birds those screaming hosts filled the air. 
She following morning after landing a few taoro oasontialo the 
Tanagor continued west to Heoicor, with part ot the party leu/lng us to 
oar rooicy island. 
Though rough and inhospitable to the voyager, when once ashore 
aihoa, in spite of its ruggodness proved of the greatest interest. 
Polynesians had once formed a oolony of several hundred persons here, 
bevel house platforms metis of flat toned stones rose one above the other 
in a little valley that during 4&o rains evidently contained water. 
One or two of those paepaos contained upright stones marking helaus or 
tempi os. Q3txe stoop slopes now clothed with bushes had boon terraced 
with groat labor to permit the cultivation of sweet potatoes or dry land 
taro. a oave or two showed signs of ancient ooonpanoy. In our excursions 
over the stoop slopoe wo found a number of atone cowls tachionod from 
porous volcanic roc*. 
