Honolulu-San Francisco, Eastman, April 1966
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Hoeman, Vincent D. 1954 We search and call for petrels and I disturb a golden plover at 3200 as I came down in dark. We make a fire and eat at shelter, then descent stopping after to listen and call. Couldn't stay up there without antifreeze tonight. We decide to stop by road near Po [illegible] Game sta to visit them in morning, but unfortunately we're on military reservation and at a quarter after midnight a John Wayne-type lieutenant and two body guards give us a jeep escort off their land. We also have a brief altercation with a cow over right-of-way, but finally sack out again out of sight of the highway in low country. Noted goat hung above 12,500 and a skull lower today. horses sometimes used to climb the mountains. Apr 1 24--So we drive south at 0600 when the pheasants wake us to Puu Waawaa when the Dillingham Ranch is said to be outpost of the crew, but a mile or two before we reach it we have the pleasure of