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a itLnLgawcbird picks or-, up occasionally, "but see well and take refuge in holes so 
that it is difficult to catch them by hand. I saw one today in the upper tranche; 
of a Tournefortia fifteen feet from the fround. Otherss were seen eating the 
stems of Portulaca in little openings. 
They make, nests, under logs or in hollow 
trees of leaves, bits of grass and birds : feathers. Their tongues are stained 
dark by some food that they eat. 
I investigated the old Japanese camp thoroughly. There is no question but that 
it was built by run here to collect birds for millinery uses. One building 15 
by JO was evidently used for housing. A few dishes, two pairs of wooden clog shoes, 
some fishing tackled and other odds and ends were strewn about. Another shed 
somewhat larger was a workshop. In this were three or four low tables made of 
boxes, two by five feet on top with a tray at either end 6 x 12 inches, one for 
plaster of paris,~the other perhaps for arsenic or some other preservative. A j 
short string with a long hook tied 
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one end was fastened to a nail at the back 
and probably served to hold the birds body during skinning. An apron at the 
front covered the lao of the laborer. 
There were large numbers of trays 18 inches by four feet to dry birds and 
ack of bamboo at one side to support them. Barrels and boxes of plaster paris 
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were found and a b of vakum. In one box were several hundred small sticks 
with oakum wound about them slutable for necks for birds. Scattered among the 
trees behind were great layers of bones, witnes ,s to the slaughter that had taken 
place. The majority were those of terns with many boobies and larger numbers of 
man-of-war bird. Many thousand birds had been destroyed. 
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AThe houses were built of half inch boards in a light frame with roof 
of galvanised 
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livir.^ quarters had windows of glass. A snail whorehouse 
was set on uoles six feet f-pri¬ 
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