"February 1965 Journal Atoll Fakarofa, Tokelau Atoll February 27 The morning shortly after dawn I walked around to the other side of the island in order to watch the nesting Lesser Frigatebird, Brown Boobies and Hawaiian Molly Merl's agent. There were about 450 Lesser Frigates, 800 Hawaiian Molly Mergs and 6 Brown Boobies. Most of these birds had roosted over the tops of some 60' Cocoa trees. In connection with the birds here it is interesting to note that the Fairy Tern do not come close to or hover above a person walking around as they do on all other islands we have visited at one time or another (except Louis Atoll). But yesterday Paul found a plant he said resembled corn, growing in one of the cultivated Taro patches. The afternoon I went over to look at it. The leaves were smooth and did not have the ragged edges that corn leaves have nor did they have the heavy pubescence of corn leaves. The leaves were joined together in such a manner that the plant resembled an enormous piece of corn grass. The plant was 9 feet high and the total length of the leaves was 4 feet." "February 27 Spent the afternoon taking pictures of some of the more typical plants on the islands we've visited. I was unable to photograph some of the smaller species due to their inaccessibility and the lack of light. Four photographs were taken of the corn-like species described earlier. Short species seen but not collected include: 'bee-wing fly, a large moth similar to the Sphinx moth and several species of moths. A number of small insects have undoubtedly been missed. The mosquito flies, fortunately, as day feeders. When working certain islands during the day one is literally mobbed by mosquitoes. Life is awful during the daylight hours but at night you aren't eaten alive. Near one of the Taro patches we found numerous clumps of Sago Palm grass. This species was undoubtedly introduced in the soil brought from Samoa. The soil was used as ballast by sailboats running up to Fakarofa from Samoa. On the return trip these ships were loaded with copra. Since the native soil was poor in quality the natives dug the pits and utilized all that was brought from Samoa. Feb 28 Fakarofa Atoll, Tokelau Atoll Set up at 6:00 a.m. and started the long trip across the lagoon. Since one of the motors acted up the trip took about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Finally arrived at the ship about 8:20 and pushed off shortly afterward for Nukunonu Atoll."