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40. Large cricket - near or in camp.
41. Small cricket, under stones, dead wood, etc.
41a. Large brown dragonfly (rare).
42. Spider on Tournefortia and Pemphis.
43. Large brown ground spider.
44. Pseudoscorpion (damp ground and rotten wood).
45. Large centipede (damp ground and rotten wood).
46. Milliped (damp ground and rotten wood).
47. Crustacian isopods (sowbugs) about 2 spp.
Rats were formerly very abundant, but have been largely killed off by poison and cats.
Saturday, March 29, 1924. At sea between Hull and the Takilau Islands.
8 A.M. Log. 95.5 Bar. 30.05. Lat. about 5° 42' S. Long. 171° 50'.
4 P.M. " 120. " " 6° 04' S. " 171° 46'.
Light wind. Steering S.E. but making S. by E.
Spend day putting away specimens and writing up notes.
Sunday, March 30. 1924.
8 A.M. Log. 59. Bar. 30.02.
Becalmed most of afternoon and night.
Spent day typing first eight pages of "Preliminary Report" and writing up notes.
Developed eight rolls of films in evening.
Heavy showers of rain and short windless squalls.
Monday March 31, 1924.
11 A.M. Log. 97 1/2. Bar. 29.98. Lat ? Long/?
Noon Lat. 8° 04' S. Long. 171° 34' W.
Spent morning sorting over charts and arranging them in racks.
At noon the crew, who had gotten drunk on fermented coconut milk had a