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The whole is bedded on a layer of fine grained conglomerate, the old beach 
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Two other wells dug near the Sesuvium patch on Wake Is. at my suggestion. 
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■yielded salt water at three feet. The sand and other mterial is so coarse that 
apparently salt water seeps through unchanged, it is possible that fresh water 
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might be obtained in th finer soil at the eastern end of Peale Is. Dependence 
may be had on rain for a certain amount of drinking water. 
Palmer and I cut a limb of Tournefortia two inches through on which 
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counted 12 growths rings of varying thicknesses. I was uncertain however as to 
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whether these were annual or merely indicated rainy seasons of which there may b 
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more than one in a year. 
.august 5—Later I visited the site of an old Japanese camp on the! 1 lagoon .side 
of W Ice Is. near the channel separating that islet from Peale Is. A clinker 
bull' boat 35 or 40 feet long that had been sawed straight through into three 
nearly equal parts lay partly buried rotting in the sand. English letters were 
indicated across the stern but the paint had scaled so as to make them illegible, 
hear at hand was a stone fireplace and a few upright sticks that had supported some 
form of shelter. Scattered about was the usual camp refuse, some broken bottles, 
chipped and broken bits of dashes of Japanese design and bits of metal. The 
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r.p apparently was eight or ten years old if not more. It might appear that men 
had desired for some reason to conceal their boat and had to cut it io make 
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o draw it out of the water. It was hauled back among heavy bushes 
nearlv 100 vards from the shore. 
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7,S,8, —Wedge-tailed Shearwaters seen from ship. 
11—Blue-faced Booby, Sooty Tern 
V. rust 12—Bulwer's Petrel, Red-t v '.cd and White-tailed Tropicbirds 
