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Roll 40:4 Looking N.W. up Pago Pago harbor.
Roll 40:5 Upper harbor, looking W.N.W.
Along side custom house wharf at 1 P.M.
Called on Mr. Scholes, delivering letters and messages given me by Mr.
Shafer on Hull Island.
Friday, April 11, 1924.
Rowed across bay to Sisters' School with Sister Frances and box for
Shafer's girls. Took pictures of them at request of Mr. Shafer, in return
for his great kindness to us on Hull.
Roll 40:6 Mr. Shafer's two girls, Elizabeth and Virginia, in front of Sister
Frances' rose garden.
Roll 41:1 The two girls and Sister Frances, with the school in the background.
(11438)
Returned to Naval Station and called on Gov. Kellogg loaning him my
"Preliminary Report" and Field Notebooks 1 and 2, to look over. Being unable
to obtain a chart of Tutuila, spent afternoon copying H.O. Chart 2924 on small
squares of paper to fit note book. Also typed a letter to Mr. Beck for Capt.
Stenbeck.
Saturday, April 12, 1924.
Obtained permission to go to Apia on U.S.S. "Ontario" and had passport
vise'd by Judge Hall, Sec. of Internal Affairs.
Field trip up the hill behind (S. of) Naval Station, and back across
ridge to Reservoir. Followed a very fair zig-zag trail up through a little
village and coconut grove and up the side of the ridge. Trail at first lined
with verbena and weeds; then with canna and ferns; and finally through a
thicket of herbs and trees strange to me. The insects were abundant from the
start. They seemed much more numerous than in Hawaii, especially because
zone begins immediately with the ascent and one enters the moist forest at