[Journal] March 6-November 22, 1933
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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.