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entirely mortel as when he was carried in, he was quite
revived with a little shaking, he clapped his
ankle something and finding it was a snake fell
off.
April 6, 1933
I got up before breakfast and developed a film
No XXV. No 37 women under tree at Lot Mardy;
28 loading steamship trading about the H+ S; 39, 40,
courier route yule Island; 41 + 44 Patrol officers
at home, yule island; 42 + 43, Coconut trees, yale island;
45 view of harbor, yule island; 46, 47 + 1 loading
canoe with load of coco 2 - 7 in. canoe hid on in
Ethel river below village; 8-13 in. above village;
14 - 23 Biota creek with native canoes and Nephalema;
25 natives of Biota village. A native brought
in a Placopus. I caught two mammals in sets No
34 & the one in Ethel is to badly shoulders rats
to save this is no small. Before starting hand
I myself had shot a white head hawk (Balasta).
Just after daylight took a walk up its trail
and shot a green pigeon, and a police boy came in
ya Middletons Cash for which the Police way had left
before. He left again so as to catch Middleton by tomorrow
morning.
April 7
I caught 3 cats in sets No 3, 5, 9 all the same
species and set out 16 more traps plugging them out
as far as its coconut in the swamp in the evening.
I went on afterwards I missed a night jar that
was sitting in the crocal of a tie by the two
streams in the pasture. I did not see anything
more until just as I came out to shoot the big
swamp with the coconuts when on looking back
I saw a bird flying probably a night hawk. I missed.
Second I missed another that I stalked clear across
the swamp; he was sitting on a dead limb at the
upper edge of its forest. I saw another one on the
hull side at the far side of the swamp.