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Specimens shot had to be protested from sharks... 
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Palmer is making a new map of the Shoals in which he is locating the 
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various spits. The names bestowed upon them have been more or less fanciful 
and the islads themselves are not permanent but seem to shift in form and 
outline. The one visited today was near the outer reef and had much coarse 
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coral and shell thrown up on the beach in lumps as large as my fist. 
Here while loading into the launch we caught a sand shark six feet long 
entirely dark above. I save the head and had the jaws cut out to show the teeth. 
Anderson tells me that on Washington Islnad ducks come to the fresh water 
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lake in large numbers from November to March. Several species are 
represented among which is the Spoonbill and one known as the "canvasback", 
that may be a Scaup. The lake is a mile and a half long and has a peat bog at 
one each with bulrushes growing it. Ulua (CaranguS) are found in the lake, a fish 
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known as "awa" and a large eel. On one occasion a canoe eleven feet long was 
dug out at a depth of eight feet in the bog. June 2b 
June 2 6 —•..Tern Island where the camp is located...The water was calm and 
travel pleasant. This western part of the lagoon is shallower than the eastern 
and has many coral heads and small reefs that almost reach the surface so 
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that navigation is more difficult. Our first call was at an island, 2 miles 
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east of the camp, called Trig Island, This island was 225 yards long by 125 
yards wide and was nearly circular in form. It rose from 8 to 19 feet above 
the water and had the summit covered with a fair growth of grass, Portulaca 
and Boerhaavia . 
On the western end of this island I found from lOOOto 1500 dead Sooty Terns, 
all young birds still.unable to fly. The carcasses were old, apparently those 
of last year's birds. They lay in little piles in slight hollows at extremem 
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high water mark as though they had been washed in here by a heavy storm. I 
