Wetnore - Journal 
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" A small owl is seen occassionally as well as a small hawk. 
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"Mr. A. J. Ker described a web-footed bird, gray, with a 
knob on the bill. Mr. Glasspole in the cable office in Honolulu 
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has a photo of it. ,T 
v/ent out to ship in afternoon 
April 25 ~ Underway at five. — arrived off Pearl and Hermes 
about two. 
April 26 -— In surfboat by seven for trip to Southeast island. 
"The island is elongate about 900-1000 yards long by 500 yards 
wide.rising 15 feet above high water. On the western portion 
the beach is of coral sand. Somewhat west of the center there is 
a tiny irregular lagoon. A bank of limestone, blackened and eroded, 
joins the southern shore here and extends out in a broad hook to the 
eastward. The island rises between 10 and 13* 18 feet at the highest 
point. Two ridges are covered with clumps of bunch grass one to two 
thick rounded hirsute leaves of 
grayish green color is abundant. There is a low spot with blackish 
soil on the eastern portion of the north side that evidently holds 
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water after rain. It was now dry. Hear this we found remains of an 
old camp. 11 
11 When we camped we were astonished to find rabbit dung 
scattered about and later found the animals fairly common in the 
bunch grass. Apparently they had been introduced three or four 
years ago by the crew that had camped there. Indications were that 
the animals had come from Laysan as they were of the same size and 
mixed colors:. I shot a considerable number and Dr. Wilson more so 
that we killed 25 before I was out of shells. 
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"3irds were abundant in tbis island as shown by the following 
