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"Huber
1964
Journal
Simon would never make a good sargent.
He is the kind of guy that would walk up
to a private and ask: Do you want to
dig a lotrine today Private so-so?
Another thing is everyone says we don't
have to do this island we [illegible] can do
it on the next I.s. We have been to
5 wheels so far, haven't [illegible] collected
any [illegible] boobies or frigate or Red tailed
tropicbirds yet. We were on Torge,
the only island in the Marshall and
Gilberts that is supposed to have W.T.S
on it and we didn't collect one.
We saw a Red rumped Rudy turnstone
and a Redbreasted Brown-booby and a orange
tagged brown booby on, Taka Atoll everybody
was satisfied [illegible] seeing the markings
[illegible] and [illegible] wanted to put out a
special effort to [illegible] get [illegible] the birds.
numbers. So far we have collected
a little over a hundred birds, and even
though we have a lot of time and at least
once a day while in the islands everyday
is skindiving in the lagoon for several
hours and just wandering around doing
nothing, Simon doesn't even consider
sending about half of us out [illegible] to the ship
to skin. Even when we can't do
anything bird wise on the island.