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Wetmore—Journal 
Austin Jones friend of Dr.Wilson on the Tanager came for the fishing. 
The party landed here for this camp consists of Wetmore, Schlemmer, Ball, Thaamum, Graa t 
Baker with George Higgs as cook. Wilder, Thurston, Dranga, Reno and Lawrence who were 
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ashore for a few hous in the afternoon have gone on to Pearl and Hermes as has Jones. 
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Mayl6 —Temperature 7:00 a.m. 72°j noon 7^°> 6:00 p.m. 73 °> 
Aftern breakfast I walked around the coast line of the nort ern two thirdd of the 
island in a preliminary survey. As charted the island seems very accurately delineated. 
It is roughly a parallelogram a mile (nautical) long by slightly less than a half mile 
wide. A low ridge on the northeatt east marks the highest point and there is a 
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central depression bounded by a raised rim protecting it foam the ocean that must in an 
earlier stage of development have been the basin of a lagoon similar to that at 
Laysan. 
The only vegetation on the island is a narrow strip of grass, and a pigweed of perhaps 
two acres in total area that extends along the ridge above the beach in a narrow 
line at the northwest point. Elsewhere the place is absolutely bare. An examination 
showed that denudation had been due to rabbits as I found parts of skeletons in 
gmfll1 number scattered about considerably worn and weathered. Careful examination 
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revealed no sign of living animals so that the statement that the rabbits here 
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ate up their food supply and then perished apparently is correct. I examined 
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vegetation carefully for signs of cutting and looked for dung but found no indication 
of either. 
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Wedge-tailed Shearwaters were spread over the entire island as at Laysan and were 
the most abundant bird. Laysan and Black-footed Albatross were fairly common though not 
so abundant in proportion to the area available as elsewhere. The grass tract 
