Wetmore - Journal 
" imagining were unbelievably tame. A red-tailed tropic-bird 
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nest under a porch chattered at us savagely a protest joined by a group of 
red-footed boobies in the two or three stunted trees near by. " 
" Seals, Monachus schauinslandi . were seen at two points near camp, 
two pairs, hauled out on the sand. Eric Schlemmer told me that usually 
when the island had been deserted for a time that seals were found at these 
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points tut that as soon as men appeared they left* 11 — collected and 
started to skin animals — 11 To our suprise the largest animal was a female 
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and the smaller one a male. Both were fully adult. The female was not pregnant 
She was distinctly darker in color than the male. The tongue was fleshy and 
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was distinctly bifid at the tip. The stomach of the female contained remains 
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from five to ten inches long. 
of twenty five of the ordinary reef fishes: 
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The intestine was highly convoluted. The animals were only moderately fat.” 
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April 9 — "This morning Grant and I with Mr. Kerr a cable operator 
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bound for Midway who was on board the Tanager, went out and cleaned up 
the skeleton of the female seal work that required until.ten." 
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plans to visit Lisiansky and French Frigate Shoals next trip 
Decker and Dihoa on third trip. 
Dicky ashor^ King on for visit 
".. walked out across the island around the lagoon. Dow areas here that are 
probably flooded after SSSS rains were covered with a mat of Sesuvium, a 
pig weed like plant that was making a brave struggle against the depredations 
of the rabbits. The latter hopped or swuatted about among the albatross and 
shearwaters occasionally taking alarm and dashing away to run down a 
hole.About 150 to 200 have been killed here since our arrival. 
All are of large ’Belgian Hare’ size and vary in color grizzled grays and 
grayish browns predominate with numbers of reddish brown, dull black, and 
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blackish brown. All had the abdomen well distended but two or three that 
were examined were not at all fat though in good flesh. * noted scattered 
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