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Wetmore—Journal 
Female; green turtle, Chelone mydas . In progressing hurriedly over firm sand the 
animal uses the same flapping motion of the front flippers that it does in sw immi ng. 
On coarser gravel it is restricted to a crawl. 
Eeno tells me that during the heavy sand storm an of the albatross and shearwaters 
went out to sea leaving the young albatross to battle the storm as best they might. About 
one thirdof the albatross those without young have failed to return. 
Today I counted humeri of albatrosses in a space 10 x 15 feet on the summit of a 
dune. This did not include other bones which were in abundance. 
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The reef closely invest the entire island with one extensive lagoon. 
I found a specimen of Puffinus gravis washed up on the beach today, apparently the 
first record for the Hawaiian Islands. 
Puffinus cuneatus is howling and yowling with redoubled noise tonight... 
Grant came in with a Locust crab, a curious flattened beast with flattened foreshortened 
and greatly modified antennae and no pincers. Its eyes glowed with a bright orange 
color in reflected light. Crayfish Palinurus .japonicus abound on the reef and grow to 
12 inches in length. The sailors from the Tanager caught over 75 lbs. one night, 
sufficient to feed the entire ship's crew. 
May 4 —...along the eastern tracts. The reef here was joined to the shore and in 
seme places breakers shot high in air at every wave. The wreckage from a sailing ship 
was supposed to have come from a schooner wrecked six or seven years ago on Maro 
and Dowsett Reefs. 
Small shrubs apparently dead projecting only a few inches above the sand are throwing 
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out a few leaves and little plants are starting over the sand and the Sesuvium patch is 
prospering. I though I detected a rabbit track in one place and Schlemmer killed one 
later under a rock pile. ...Reno took another. 
I collected a series of immature ‘Frigatebirds and a box of eggs of the Sooty Tern. 
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Mav 5 —This morning I made a circle of the lagoon returning to camp at noon. 
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