Seepage 
The Fairy Island Liner failed to make its press deadline this 
time so you will receive only the Seepage Section. 
Jarvis Island turned out to he a cat infected, booby covered 
nightmare. All day was spent digging out and killing cats all night 
banding boobies. Several individuals did over five hundred boobies 
in one night and cat killings ran about fifty a day. At one point 
four people were chasing ten cats and the air was blue with gun smoke 
and other items. 
Christmas Island which we are now leaving, God rest its bloody 
soul, has acquired the name of bad luck island. Items: No advanced 
warning (i.e., after looking forward to Real Food and Real Beds we had 
to rough it for four days). Ship crew dropped the whaleboat all the 
way from the boat deck punching several large holes in it. Ship had 
an engine failure necessitating an extra day here waiting for parts to 
arrive by air. Shallowness of water prevented close approach to the 
islands and SI party had to carry it’s tone of supplies l/k mile across 
mud, Sibley and Huber lucked out by ending up l-l/2 miles from shore 
when they set up an overnight camp. Three members walked 12 miles one 
afternoon looking for a Sooty Tern colony which Dr. Ashmole had marked 
on our map as 5 miles east of its correct location. 
Once again we have established some new marks in the record book. 
Roger worked three days on nothing but coconuts. Party of five con¬ 
sumed only twenty-four C ration meals in four full days. 
Members were too pooped to care about records by the time we 
reached Palmyra, and the records of nineteen continuous hours immersed 
