Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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Saw a large ulua and several smaller fish including small sharks. Several small groves of Tournefortia trees about this point, made up of trees 10 to 25 feet high; a nesting place for boobies. Took wood specimen (Marked (2)) (Plant Spec. 22). Caught another Syrphus fly (same sp.). Grove directly N. of Point, about 250 yards from it and 150 from ocean beach in form of U enclosing a luxuriant bed of Boerhaavia 20 x 100 feet, which was alive with small brown leaf hoppers, black ants, white micros, black flies, and small spiders. This grove is 75 yards in diameter with usual moths and caterpillars, black ants and large brown bugs. Numerous nesting boobies and hippobosied flies. Small patch of Sesuvium yielded only small black flies and a few leaf- hoppers. It has a nearly white, five petel, star-shaped flower. About 200 yards E. of point (where we landed) is a stone wharf and re- maines of tram-way rails. Patch of kou trees, (a dozen stunted trees some 15 feet high) grown here, some of the trees growing over the tram-way rails, giving an idea of its period of disuse. Took wood sample (marked (1)) (Plant Spec. 21). Roll 14:3 The bay containing stone wharf and kou patch, looking east. The rails extended back (east) about 500 feet. Only remains are a roll of cable and two pairs of wheels. Few mounds of guano near wharf. Few small patches of Ipomoea pescapai (?) with white flowers. They are covered with black ants. East of here is a patch of a dozen small Scaevola bushes, none higher than my head. On them:- small yellow fly, syrphus fly, yellow moth (same sp (?) as on Neeker), large brown moth (same as Wake(?)), spiders, black ants, small white and brown moth. The ocean side reef is here about 100-125 yards wide, beach steep coral lumps and sand; plenty of driftwood. On lagoon side, about 1/4 mile E.S.E. of kou patch, on next point, is a