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searched eagerly among them for Procelsterna . For the first fifteen minutes I was 
afraid that I was mistaken in my identification of them in the uncertain light of 
early morning as none appeared. On crossing however to the smaller peak dl 
tfas pleased to find two resting on a ledge and soon secured them both. 
Tropicbirds nesting below the summit and many blued-faced boobies most tt them 
with well grown young. 
Spiders were common under rocksand I saw several large ear wigs. Half a dozen 
plants of a pigweed were seen but no other vegetaition was found. In working 
about.I.thorns apparently from some seed like that of the spiny seed from Laysan 
butsaw no plants that might yield them. (Tribulus cestoides) 
Tne lower reaches of rock where washed by waves were covered with algae with 
many of the conical shells know as opeki, j The animal of the latter makes an 
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hxpeliejQt chowder... 
24—This morning at noon we were in sigAt of Nihoa and toward noon ran up past 
the high cliffs at the western end to examine Adams Bay which opens to the south 
and southeast. Steep slopes ran up from the beach to the abrupt cliffs that break 
to furm the northern shore. Three sma l l bights formed the inner face of the bay. 
A sand beach lay in the western-most which with a shoulder above the middle 
bigho seemed to offer two sites that might be available for camping. 
heavily 
enough 
cut through at the eastern end of the island and then turned and sought anchorage in 
the lee at the western end of the island a little over half a mile distant. 
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smander King, Thaanum, Dranga, Schlemmer and Grant and myself went on to the 
-.go* tne cliffs. The rock wall towered from the wateris edge sheer to the 
summit from tfO to 900 feet above. The black volcanic rock at irregular intervals 
