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'Jha albatross though roduoed in number are still present by 
thousands, and with them are many boobies, frigate birds and hosts of 
shearwaters anA terns. She white-breasted and Tristram’s petrels small 
sea-birds-That appear mainly at night were the only sea-birds that appear¬ 
ed to have suffered but they had almost disappeared; drifting sand, no 
longer restrained by vegetation, had buried them alive in their earthen 
burrows dug for hiding places against the light of day, or to conoeal 
their nests. Let us hope for happier days when with vegetation renewed 
these birds may repopulate their former territory from colonies on nearby 
islands. 
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The island of Lisianslci, one hundred and twenty miles west of Laysan 
was named in 1806 by the Russian explorer Drey Lisianslci, while en route 
through these waters on a course from Sit lea to Canton, tfor two or throe 
days his seamen had noted flying birds and other signs of land and one 
evening without warning his ship grounded on a coral reef. After two days 
severe labor she was salvaged and Lisianslci went ashore on the island within 
the reef which he described as covered with creepers and other vegetation, 
but a desolate place whose soil wa3 undermined by the burrows of a dovolilce 
bird, with a mournful moaning note (unquestionably the wedge-tailed shear¬ 
water). 
We sighted Lisianslci through an early morning haze but came in slowly 
over uncertain shoals to an anchorage so that it was afternoon before we 
made a landing. 
