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Hilo, Hawaii,March 34, 1902. 
Dear Will: 
I am glad fco hear that you continue in fighting trim.There 
is some pleasure bo be dot out of life if a man is ohysiaoally fib, 
and if nob existence has little bo of fan.I am by no means as indiffer 
enb bo boil as you seam bo be,bub my ability bo work is comparatively 
so gret bhab I oannob oomplain. 
I have .just returned from a brip inbo Kau where I spent some 
time in bhe woods afbar birds,and failed utterly bo get brack of 
bhe particular spaoies T went afbar.The bhree speoies are both rare 
and local,and as bhe aeea bhey may inBabib is very large ib is nexb 
to impossible bo find them without underbaking a regular campaign 
with a camping outfit.This is too much of an undertaking for ms as well 
as too costly.The trouble is that the**are no longer found where the 
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Englishmen found them, and so I have to begin all over again.Probably too 
they are becoming much fewer in numbers than they were ten years ago as 
is the oase with all Hawaiian birs, common a3 well as rare. 
I found wild turkeys very numerous so that it was easy to go out 
and shoot one at any bime. T think that the turkey withstands the 
assaults of the mongoose muoh better than the quail although in nlaoss 
the turkies 3 sem to have been exterminated by the little beast. 
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